What to expect at CES 2026

The biggest tech show of the twelvemonth kicks disconnected adjacent week, arsenic immoderate of the industry’s apical players show up to Las Vegas for CES 2026. We’ll beryllium location to spot each the caller merchandise demos we tin and to bring you the astir breathtaking news from the show. Follow our sum for a preview of each the caller tech these companies are readying to motorboat successful 2026.

Expect to spot the accustomed suspects: laptops, smart location gadgets, and TVs, and a full batch much wearables and wellness tech. We’re anticipating seeing much products pinch AI integration. Also, robots. Perhaps, humanoids even.

CES 2026 officially starts connected Tuesday, January 6th, but enactment tuned for news and announcements starting Sunday up of the show level opening, erstwhile location are besides tons of property conferences. Here are the awesome thumps we’re expecting to spot astatine the show.

Laptops are ever large astatine CES, pinch astir awesome companies — prevention for Apple — announcing caller models. They scope from iterative spec bumps to full caller designs. Plus, there’s ever the occasional concept that may aliases may never travel out.

CES 2026 should bring caller laptops featuring 3 caller chips: Intel’s Panther Lake, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2, and AMD’s rumored “Gorgon Point” processors. Intel and Qualcomm are hyping up the ratio of their caller chips while simultaneously emphasizing graphics powerfulness — which ever sounds excessively bully to beryllium existent and often is. But artillery life ranges from bully to fantabulous among existent offerings, and AMD proved pinch Strix Halo that integrated graphics could beryllium downright impressive. I’m intrigued to spot really things advancement from here, particularly successful a twelvemonth that doesn’t person caller Nvidia GPUs. (But past again, Nvidia whitethorn soon compete successful a different way.)

Regardless of really the latest spot showdown shakes out, I dream we spot much unsocial ideas successful laptop shape factors. Give maine much rollables, dual-screens, foldables, aliases immoderate different clever uses of surface existent property that tin beryllium dreamed up. But for illustration my favourite laptop from the past CES, let’s dream the extremist worldly makes it past the conception stage.

- Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Robots and smart locks and AI, ohio my! CES 2026 will beryllium overrun by robots. From ever-wilder vacuums, excavation cleaners, and section mowers, to humanoid bots pinch hands, limbs, and deeper intelligence, this will beryllium the twelvemonth smart location robotics moves from subject fabrication to subject fact.

Will we each person humanoids doing our laundry by the extremity of the year? Nope. But the thought of robotic helpers, successful immoderate form, will soon beryllium mainstream, acknowledgment to immense advances successful machine vision. And it each kicks disconnected adjacent week successful Vegas.

Similarly, AI is powering advances successful information cameras, moving them beyond axenic surveillance and into a much integral domiciled successful location automation. Expect caller capabilities that usage deeper intelligence to supply much-needed context. Cameras becoming portion of Matter is besides a measurement guardant here, and I dream to spot companies denote support for the modular — moreover though the platforms are lagging behind.

The different large inclination will beryllium smart locks. Yes, I said this past year (and I was right), but delays astir the Aliro standard slowed the onslaught. Still, smart locks stay the hottest point successful the smart location — being some an fantabulous introduction constituent (ha) and a lynchpin for a afloat integrated home. Expect to, erstwhile again, spot a slew of palm, facial, and UWB-based unlocking locks, on pinch amended shape factors, arsenic tech companies yet judge that not everyone wants Star Trek–style hardware connected their beforehand doors.

- Jennifer Tuohy

CES 2025 was a large twelvemonth for PC gamers — caller flagship Nvidia graphics cards, SteamOS handhelds, and 27-inch 240Hz 4K OLED displays — but don’t expect 2026 to connection the same! On the PC broadside of things, Nvidia’s RTX 50 Super has likely been postponed, we can’t trust Intel’s latest desktop GPU tease, and we’re not expecting gaming GPUs from AMD. The historically splashy Razer doesn’t person a booth connected the level for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, and the “Gaming / XR” chunk of the Las Vegas Convention Center looks for illustration it’s only tangentially astir gaming this year: it looks for illustration we’ll spot much video glasses location than thing else!

- Sean Hollister

The large mobility that has yet to beryllium answered is really early into 2026 will we spot immoderate of them for waste and really overmuch they’ll cost. Both the 115-inch Samsung Micro RGB LED TV and 116-inch Hisense RGB Mini LED successful 2025 were successful the $30,000 ballpark, pinch a 100-inch type of the Hisense announced for $19,999. The technological advancements made to RGB LED complete the past year, and the committedness of stiff competition, is judge to bring prices person to a much manageable range. Once CES begins, I dream we’ll find retired precisely really manageable.

- John Higgins

CES is not for normie phones. The phones that make it to CES are weirdo phones, and the number-one weirdo telephone I’m hoping to spot 1 measurement aliases different is the Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold. Samsung isn’t usually 1 for showing disconnected phones astatine the show; the S-series usually gets a refresh a mates of weeks later successful January. But this twelvemonth mightiness beryllium different: the Trifold conscionable launched successful Korea, and CES seems for illustration a bully large shape for a world debut. I americium ready, successful my bosom of hearts, for a telephone pinch 2 hinges.

Will it beryllium excessive? Undoubtedly. Will it costs a buttload of money? You cognize it. But deliberation of each the things you tin do pinch a telephone that’s besides a due 10-inch tablet. Maybe this is the telephone that will present connected the committedness of leaving my laptop astatine home. Are you there, DeX? It’s me, Allison. Either way, it’s gonna beryllium truthful sick the first clip I fold up this telephone and past fold it again. I deliberation it’s a adjacent stake that we’ll spot this double-folding beaut astatine CES, and what amended measurement to usher successful the Year of the Folding Phone?

- Allison Johnson

For truthful galore years, wearables went hand-in-hand pinch wellness and fittingness tracking. This year, I’m expecting to spot less fittingness trackers and much XR and AI devices. Specifically, smart glasses. They were a large fixture astatine CES 2025, and I spot that inclination continuing into 2026. But while the commercialized marketplace is dominated by alleged AI glasses — lightweight devices for illustration the Ray-Ban Meta glasses — there’s overmuch much assortment astatine CES. I expect we’ll spot immoderate smart glasses that blur the statement pinch headsets and possibly immoderate absorbing takes connected really to embed displays.

On the wellness front, I wouldn’t beryllium amazed if we spot the connection “longevity” tacked onto products. Think devices that are meant to thief you unrecorded longer aliases forestall chronic diseases. Unfortunately, that intends bodily fluids for illustration humor and urine. (Why? To effort and get a model into hormonal and metabolic health.) We’ve already seen this from Whoop, Oura, and Withings successful 2025, truthful I expect we’ll spot much experimental takes from smaller companies astatine the show.

- Victoria Song