The robots, telephones, and Lego of CES 2026

This 12 months’s Shopper Electronics Present is just simply entering into full swing, and we’ve already seen a deluge of gadget bulletins. There are the staples, in fact: gigantic TVs, good house sensors, cellphone equipment, weirdly elaborate methods to cost your units. Wouldn’t be CES with out them. However this 12 months in Las Vegas, there are additionally loads of new hints about what the tech trade imagines the longer term could be like.

On this episode of The Vergecast, David and Nilay undergo a number of the present’s most fascinating early bulletins. They begin with, in fact, the humanoid robots, together with the one which LG guarantees will be capable of do your laundry regardless that it seems completely unable to do your laundry. Then they speak about this 12 months’s new cellular units, together with the Clicks Communicator, an early favourite for the “most enjoyable new gadget that precise individuals may truly purchase” award.

Then it’s time for some good house information, as a result of there’s a lot of good house information this 12 months. And numerous TV information. And at the very least one new social gathering speaker. And the most popular, smartest new factor in Lego. It’s definitely true that AI is all over the place at this 12 months’s CES, nevertheless it additionally seems to be a return to gadget-y kind on the present. There’s just one gadget lacking, actually, and it’s the Trump Cellphone. We all know: we’re stunned too.

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