One of many main attracts of any tech present are the examples of future pondering made flesh and CES isn’t any exception. In addition to the anticipated increase for all issues AI, many exhibitors at CES 2026 made a advantage of synthetic intelligence’s gradual manifestation as a extra bodily presence, relatively than simply chatbots and digital assistants.
Learn on to find 9 gadgets of tech information that might form the house and office of tomorrow.
SwitchBot Good Dwelling 2.0 ensemble
onero H1 home robotic from SwitchBot
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On reflection, the ‘web of issues’ was a little bit of a humid squib. Undaunted, tech corporations are pushing the following technology good house, this time embedding lashings of AI and the promise of coherent, all-in-one ecosystems of devices and connectivity – offered you persist with the playbook promised by a singular model.
onero H1 home robotic from SwitchBot
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SwitchBot is one such new participant. At CES 2026, the corporate ushered in a collection of AI-powered units starting from robots to good lamps. Garnering probably the most curiosity, as this stuff are likely to do, is the onero H1 family robotic. Two robotic arms on a stick, with a semblance of a head, the H1 rolls round your hopefully single-level dwelling area and affords up help with ‘family chores that stay tough to automate.’
OBBOTO desk lamp from SwitchBot
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What this implies in observe stays to be seen, though the SwitchBot ecosystem is designed to work holistically, with each system within the vary chipping in to help, from the MindClip transportable AI assistant to the Lock Vista Sequence of good deadbolts, with their 3D facial recognition skills. Nonetheless, the H1 will get the headlines as everybody loves a robotic, in principle if not in observe.
SwitchBot Climate Station
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The 2 SwitchBot units that supply probably the most potential straight out of the field are the e-ink Climate Station pill and the OBBOTO desk lamp. The latter accommodates 2,900 LEDs and might reply to all kinds of exterior stimuli, from music to movement, in addition to show data like time and climate.
Extra data at Swap-Bot.com
Looki L1 AI Wearable
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AI Wearables have gotten commonplace, however the one factor the bulk have in widespread is that they require the consumer to activate them earlier than they begin working. Looki’s L1 is described as ‘the world’s first proactive AI wearable’, with the marginally doubtful premise of having the ability to ‘anticipate consumer wants as a substitute of ready for enter.’ In observe, that sounds just like the weirdly cartoonish system – worn across the neck – will generate gigabytes of information because it fulfils its quest to change into your ‘second mind’.
Weighing in at 32g with a 12-hour battery, there could be some sensible skilled purposes (it was demoed utilizing a specifically devised ‘Expo Mode’) however for the remainder of us, the concepts of a conveyable stash of each day recordings is just a little too Black Mirror and never sufficient blue sky.
Extra data at Looki.ai
OLLOBOT cyber pet
OLLOBOT cyber pet by Minnray
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One other android making a stealthy bid for domesticity, the OLLOBOT is a cyber pet designed for companionship by way of intelligent simulacrum of emotional intelligence. Though the dustbin-sized system is armless, the OLLOBOT incorporates a studying AI that can steadily be taught to recognise these round it, whereas any learnings and captured content material will be transferred over to any subsequent technology fashions.
The OLLOBOT reveals off its extending neck
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Developed by Aarhus- and Beijing-based studio Swift Creatives for the Shenzhen electronics and digital camera specialists Minnray, OLLOBOT will get its persona via the fastidiously choreographed suite of actions and responses it shows. Swift Creatives got down to design a ‘robotic that feels current within the house with out demanding consideration’.
OLLOBOT cyber pet by Minnray
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There’s playful use of tactile, furry surfaces, each on the robotic’s ‘head’ and its non-grabbing (however sensor-filled) flippers, permitting OLLOBOT to answer contact. Acquainted and non-threatening expressions are conveyed by way of the principle show display, the visible manifestation of what the corporate calls the robotic’s ‘EmpathCore’, which will also be stretched out, ET-style to. A 3-wheeled movement system permits the OLLOBOT to trundle round, hopefully turning into a part of the household within the course of.
Extra data at Minnraycam.com
PISEN iDock Qi2.2 AI Robotic Charging Station
PISEN iDock Qi2.2 AI Robotic Charging Station
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A gimmicky replace on the usual desktop charger, PISEN’s iDock combines wi-fi charging with USB-C ports ample to cost a laptop computer, ambient lighting, a Bluetooth speaker and an onboard AI system that turns a docked telephone into a private ‘robotic’. Because of this, PISEN hopes the all-in-one system will double up as an AI assistant with the matching app supplying a unusual persona.
PISEN iDock Qi2.2 AI Robotic Charging Station
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PISEN iDock Qi2.2 AI Robotic Charging Station, accessible from PISEN.biz from this Spring
Lenovo Laptop computer Ideas
ThinkPad Rollable XD Idea from Lenovo proven totally prolonged
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Lenovo used CES to indicate off this yr’s crop of recent improvements, from AI Glasses to Qira, a ‘Private Ambient Intelligence System’ that can go along with throughout units. We had been most intrigued by the showy ThinkPad Rollable XD Idea, which incorporates a versatile show that wraps across the prime of the laptop computer. On the click on of a button, the principle show extends upwards, rising from 13.3” to a most of 16”.
ThinkPad Rollable XD Idea reveals the uncovered mechanisms on the rear of the display
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When not totally prolonged the ‘flipped’ little bit of the rollable display can double up as a forward-facing show for conferences, and so on. A little bit of a stunt? Maybe – the sensible purposes really feel relatively restricted. Props to Lenovo for utilizing a clear mesh to focus on the display’s inner pulleys and servos so you may see the mechanical transformation in motion.
The XD Idea’s display ‘folds’ over the surface of the case
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Additionally on show was the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, with its motorised hinge that may twizzle the display for a greater view and the Legion Professional Rollable Idea, a 16” gaming laptop computer that makes use of the identical display tech because the XD. This time the growth is horizontal, not vertical, permitting the laptop computer to divulge heart’s contents to a most display dimension of 24”.
Extra data on Lenovo’s vary of laptops at Lenovo.com
LG CLOiD Home Robotic
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LG Electronics has a large market presence throughout each conceivable sector. Along with the corporate’s W6 Wallpaper TV, the corporate additionally had its personal AI-powered suite of home home equipment on show. Its ‘AI in Motion’ method builds on LG’s thought of ‘Affectionate Intelligence’, first launched in 2024, and can roll out into all kinds of home equipment within the years to come back, however the system that greatest embodies the method is one other home robotic, the LG CLOiD.
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LG describes the CLOiD as an ‘ambient care agent’. Taking the identical kind issue because the onero H1 – an articulated torso on a wheeled puck, the robotic is a part of LG’s imaginative and prescient of a zero-labour house (pause for hole laughter from homemakers the world over). Every arm has a five-fingered, extremely dextrous hand, permitting the CLOiD to theoretically choose up the place people go away off and do all kinds of guide labour.
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Examples of how this house integration would possibly work embrace the CLOiD working as a house safety agent, a way of sensing temperature and air high quality round a dwelling and the flexibility to unload the dishwasher or retrieve and fold the laundry. If robotic housekeepers are to be a factor of the longer term, we reckon the tech bro bachelor pads of Silicon Valley are the place they’ll discover their first footing.
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Extra data at LG.com
Birdfy Feeder Vista
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We will’t knock the pondering behind Birdfy’s two latest merchandise, the Feeder Vista and Bathtub Professional. The corporate specialises in interactive chicken feeders, units that do the easy work of placing seed and different meals out for backyard birds whereas giving their prospects AI-driven chicken identification, notification and imagery.
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The Feeder Vista incorporates two cameras for a 6K ultra-HD panoramic view of your feasting feathered associates, mechanically producing what Birdfy calls ‘cinematic’ spotlight reels of the backyard guests. Seeds are saved within the base of the system and steadily pumped up into the feeding bowl. Birdfy additionally promise a level of squirrel-proofing, because of a weight-sensor system that shuts up store ought to a heavier creature be detected.
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The corporate additionally revealed the upcoming Birdfy Bathtub Professional, ‘a sustainable and good puddle for each chicken’, bringing the corporate’s digital camera and identification tech to the normal birdbath.
UK.Birdfy.com, @BIrdfy_by_Netvue
Roborock Saros Rover Prototype
Roborock Saros Rover Prototype
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Throughout our tenure with the Roborock Saros S70 the one-armed robotic vacuum proved itself to be greater than just a little uncanny. That sense of creeping unease will probably be amplified as soon as the corporate’s latest robotic cleaner involves market, maybe later this yr. The Saros Rover is a prototype for a strolling robotic cleaner that may hoick itself up over obstacles and even climb stairs.
Roborock Saros Rover Prototype
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Proving that vacuum cleaner tech typically leads the way in which in terms of automated navigation across the house, this conceptual imaginative and prescient may quickly be staggering round the home terrifying pets in an unceasing quest for autonomous mud busting.
World.Roborock.com
Skwheel All-Terrain Electrical Ski
Skwheel if you wish to go sooner: the Peak S and Peak
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Wheeled skies are in no way a brand new thought, however French start-up Skwheel has added one other dimension to the tech via electrification. Because of this, the corporate’s forthcoming Peak S mannequin boasts all-terrain capacity.
The off-road variant boasts speeds of as much as 60km/h with a spread of round 50km. For those who aren’t after the ski du fond expertise, the usual Peak affords city micromobility with far more stability than the common electrical scooter.
Preorders are open at Skwheel.com
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