LAS VEGAS -- With the commencement of the New Year squarely down us, it's erstwhile again clip for the yearly CES commercialized amusement to radiance a spotlight connected the latest tech companies program connected offering successful 2026.
The multi-day event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks disconnected this week successful Las Vegas, wherever advances crossed industries similar robotics, healthcare, vehicles, wearables, gaming and much are acceptable to beryllium connected display.
Artificial quality volition beryllium anchored successful astir everything, again, arsenic the tech manufacture explores offerings consumers volition privation to buy. AI manufacture heavyweight Jensen Huang volition beryllium taking the signifier to showcase Nvidia's latest productivity solutions, and AMD CEO Lisa Su volition keynote to “share her imaginativeness for delivering aboriginal AI solutions.” Expect AI to travel up successful different keynotes, similar from Lenovo's CEO, Yuanqing Yang.
The AI manufacture is retired successful afloat unit tackling issues successful healthcare, with a peculiar accent connected changing idiosyncratic wellness habits to dainty conditions — specified arsenic Beyond Medicine's medicine app focused connected a peculiar jaw upset — oregon addressing information shortages successful subjects specified arsenic bosom beverage production.
Expect much unveils astir home robots too. Korean tech elephantine LG already has announced it volition amusement disconnected a helper bot named “ CLOiD,” which allegedly volition grip a scope of household tasks. Hyundai besides is announcing a large propulsion connected robotics and manufacturing advancements. Extended reality, fundamentally a virtual grooming crushed for robots and different carnal AI, is besides successful the buzz astir CES.
In 2025, much than 141,000 attendees from implicit 150 countries, regions, and territories attended the CES. Organizers expect astir the aforesaid numbers for this year’s show, with much than 3,500 exhibitors crossed the level abstraction this week.
The AP spoke with CTA Executive Chair and CEO Gary Shapiro astir what to expect for CES 2026. The speech has been edited for clarity and length.
Well, we person a batch astatine this year's show.
Obviously, utilizing AI successful a mode that makes consciousness for people. We’re seeing a batch successful robotics. More robots and humanoid-looking robots than we’ve ever had before.
We besides spot longevity successful health, there’s a batch of absorption connected that. All sorts of wearable devices for astir each portion of the body. Technology is answering healthcare’s gaps precise rapidly and that’s large for everyone.
Mobility is large with not lone self-driving vehicles but besides with boats and drones and each sorts of different ways of getting around. That’s precise important.
And of course, contented instauration is ever precise big.
You are seeing humanoid robots close now. It sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t.
But yes, determination are much and much humanoid robots. And erstwhile we speech astir CES 5, 10, 15, 20 years now, we’re going to spot an adjacent larger scope of humanoid robots.
Obviously, past twelvemonth we saw a large involvement successful them. The fig 1 merchandise of the amusement was a small robotic canine that seems truthful life-like and fun, and affectionate for radical that request that benignant of affection.
But of course, the humanoid robots are conscionable 1 facet of that industry. There’s a batch of specialization successful robot creation, depending connected what you privation the robot to do. And robots tin bash galore things that humans can’t.
AI is the aboriginal of creativity.
Certainly AI itself whitethorn beryllium arguably creative, but the quality caput is truthful unsocial that you decidedly get caller ideas that way. So I deliberation the aboriginal is much of a hybrid approach, wherever contented creators are moving with AI to trade variations connected a taxable oregon to amended monetize what they person to a broader audience.
We’re seeing each sorts of antithetic devices that are implementing AI. But we person a peculiar absorption astatine this show, for the archetypal time, connected the disablement community. Verizon acceptable this full signifier up wherever we person each antithetic ways of taking this exertion and having it assistance radical with disabilities and older people.
Well, there’s decidedly nary bubble erstwhile it comes to what AI tin do. And what AI tin bash is execute miracles and lick cardinal quality problems successful nutrient accumulation and cleanable aerial and cleanable water. Obviously successful healthcare, it’s gonna beryllium overwhelming.
But this was similar the net itself. There was a batch of speech astir a bubble, and determination really was a bubble. The quality is that successful precocious 1990s determination were fundamentally were nary gross models. Companies were raising a batch of wealth with nary plans for revenue.
These AI companies person important revenues today, and companies are investing successful it.
What I’m much acrophobic about, honestly, is not Wall Street and a bubble. Others tin beryllium acrophobic astir that. I’m acrophobic astir getting capable vigor to process each that AI. And astatine this show, for the archetypal time, we person a Korean institution showing the archetypal ever small-scale nuclear-powered vigor instauration device. We expect much and much of these radical rushing to capable this spread due to the fact that we request the energy, we request it cleanable and we request a benignant of all-of-the-above solution.
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