Within the midst of CES 2026, we’re seeing extra know-how offload duties to robots, whether or not it is one thing as widespread as a vacuum or different family chores. This 12 months, they’re smarter, extra agile and delightfully extra bizarre — and principally powered by artificial intelligence. For each new choice that is constructed to make your private home life simpler in a method or one other, there’s one other that exists solely to channel your nostalgia and have enjoyable with, and we aren’t in brief provide of both this 12 months.
Listed here are among the greatest and most fascinating robots on the CES show floor this 12 months; we’ll proceed so as to add extra as we uncover them.
CLOiD by LG
LG’s residence robotic with laundry, cooking and dishwasher-emptying expertise might mark a significant turning level in residence robotics.
Whereas we do not fairly have a Rosey from The Jetsons but, LG’s CLOiD robotic guarantees loads. Utilizing a mix of synthetic intelligence and vision-based know-how, CLOiD can carry out family duties, similar to cooking, laundry and extra. The bot is built-in with LG’s ThinQ ecosystem, which means that you’re going to additionally have to produce other LG home equipment to get essentially the most out of CLOiD.
CLOiD appears just like the humanoid robotic future you’d anticipate it to. It consists of a head, torso, two arms and wheels for transferring round. And it is about as inoffensive because it will get, giving off an nearly cartoonish cute vibe. LG’s newest combines a sequence of capabilities into one robotic, making CLOiD a pivot level within the work of residence robotic helpers.
Roborock Saros Rover
Roborock’s Saros Rover is extra agile with its distinctive legs.
It is humorous to assume that one of many first “robotic” assistants began out as a vacuum, and we’re nonetheless attempting to good the duty. We have come a great distance from the primary technology of Roombas and Roborock’s Saros Rover exhibits us simply that. One of many greatest duties that robotic vacuums have tried to handle over time is how they navigate stairs and different obstacles, and the Roborock may be onto one thing with Rover’s angled legs.
The Rover’s skill to clear stairs is certainly spectacular, nevertheless it’s removed from a velocity demon when taking up the duty. Once we noticed the demo of the vacuum in motion, it took practically 40 seconds to clear 5 giant stairs, although it managed to scrub every stair on its means up.
Pricing and availability for the Rover have but to be revealed, however we would not be shocked to see the leggy vacuum debut with a price ticket of $2,500 or extra.
Sweekar
Sure, it is AI. But it surely’s additionally a lot greater than that.
Let’s neglect all these robots with sensible capabilities. If there is a gap in your coronary heart that solely an AI-powered Tamagotchi-like robotic can fill, your want has been granted with the Sweekar. Its schtick is that it’ll develop bodily bigger as you work together and lift it, first beginning out as an egg with ears. The egg will finally “hatch,” revealing a show that turns into Sweekar’s eyes.
Sweekar has three life phases: child, teenager and maturity. As an example this additional, the little bot’s physique bodily grows larger all through every of those phases. Like older Tamagotchi gadgets, Sweekar requires extra interplay and care in its early phases of life and turns into extra unbiased and clever because it ages. And should you neglect the Sweekar, it would die, and you may want to start out over from scratch.
It is a system that is all for enjoyable however appears like a real successor to the pocket pets from the ’90s that took the world by storm. The Sweekar can be accessible later this 12 months for $150 on Kickstarter.
New Boston Dynamics Atlas prototype
Atlas says “hello!”
A pivot away from the robots dwelling in your house is a reputation that’s usually considered in terms of spectacular however creepy robotic prototypes: Boston Dynamics. Its newest normal objective robotic prototype, Atlas, now feels like the future.
The most recent model of humanoid bipedal robotic, Atlas, can stroll with a assured stride, which instantly tells you it isn’t like its predecessors. It is completely different and fluid. It additionally has 56 levels of freedom, totally rotational joints and arms with tactile sensing capabilities. Its {hardware} is extra highly effective and dexterous, and that is simply the half of it.
Father or mother firm Hyundai additionally introduced a partnership with Google DeepMind, which might energy future robots. Though Atlas itself is designed for repetitive, meeting line work and can accomplish that at Hyundai’s manufacturing plant in Savannah, Georgia, the concept of Gemini powering the present is not simply spectacular — it is an necessary step on this area.
