CES 2026: Yapay Zeka, Robotik ve Çip Teknolojileri Kullanıma Geçiyor

CES 2026 marked yet another major moment of interesting and innovative tech, giving us a glimpse into the future.

From cute little bots that track the sun and move as needed to a water heater that mines Bitcoin, lollipop that plays music in your mouth, and an innovative appliance to deal with your plastic bags, the CES event showed off a brilliant array of imaginative tech.

Held from January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas, the highlight of the Consumer Electronics Show this time was foundational technologies: AI compute, robotics, autonomy, chips, and systems that power entire industries.

From startups to big corporations, companies showcased their impressive lineups, demonstrating that AI is no longer experimental but has become operational.

AI is becoming ubiquitous. From chips to vehicles, home infrastructure, operating systems, and robotic control systems, AI is being embedded into everything, with an emphasis on on-device and edge AI.

The industry is taking a major step beyond generative AI, with the rise of “Physical AI.” Here, AI systems are directly manipulating the real world, like robots with real-time perception. Robotics is crossing an important line, going mainstream with better mobility and balance, more natural human-robot interaction, and clear industrial and service use cases.

As hardware, infused with AI, took center stage at the event, we saw the focus shift from ‘smart’ devices to autonomous systems. Moreover, instead of flashy concept cars, the event’s emphasis was on sensors, automotive AI processors, safety-critical software, and incremental autonomy.

CES 2026 demonstrated the evolution from AI discovery to AI deployment. Let’s now take a look at the most disruptive pieces of technology from the event.

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NVIDIA (NVDA -1.01%) Vera Rubin AI Computing Platform

The AI darling, Nvidia, unveiled its next-generation AI supercomputing architecture at CES 2026. What made the $4.5 trillion market-cap tech giant the talk of the event this time was its Rubin AI platform.

This new AI supercomputing architecture from the world’s most profitable company consists of multiple tightly integrated chips. It dramatically reduces costs and training time for large AI models and supports confidential computing. Aimed at data centers and frontier AI workloads, Nvidia’s Rubin AI marks a new era in AI infrastructure.

In this architecture, Nvidia has six new Rubin chips working together. This includes Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, BlueField4 DPU, NVLink 6th-gen switch, Connect-X9 NIC, and Spectrum-X 102.4T CPO.

The two main AI chips in this are the Rubin GPU, which has 336 billion transistors and promises to deliver five times better AI inference performance than its predecessor, Blackwell, while reducing energy consumption for running and training AI programs.

The early launch of the Vera Rubin computing platform follows a record-breaking year for Blackwell. The AI boom also helped Nvidia deliver record-high data center revenue last quarter.

The company has already started “full production” of its Rubin platform, but AI chips and other products and services running on it will be made available in the second half of this year. Major cloud providers like Amazon (AMZN -0.79%), Microsoft (MSFT -0.87%), and Google, as well as AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI, are also expected to deploy and adopt the Rubin platform.

Described as “six chips that make one AI supercomputer,” Vera Rubin will be the first rack-scale trusted computing platform.

Lenovo Qira: Hybrid On-Device & Cloud AI Assistant

The China-based tech giant, Lenovo, has entered the crowded AI voice assistant market with Qira, which will act as a personal digital twin across its laptops, phones, tablets, and wearables. It combines on-device and cloud AI and learns over time from users’ preferences and experiences, representing a step toward more proactive, personalized AI agents in daily life.

“Over time, your personal AI becomes your cognitive partner to think as you would think and act as you would act.”

– Lenovo CEO, Yang Yuanqing

He called Qira a “personal AI super agent,” which will be rolled out on select Lenovo devices in the next couple of months.

The AI assistant will also be integrated into its newly-revealed AI glasses to enable image recognition and live translation. The glasses have a camera at each corner of the frame and rely on a tethered smartphone for processing, while supporting touch and voice controls.

But that’s not all from the Hong Kong-based company. Lenovo also showcased the Legion Pro Rollable at the event.

The concept gaming laptop features an OLED screen that can smoothly expand from 16 inches to a much wider 21.5 or 24 inches. The rollable panel works with Lenovo AI Engine+, which includes dynamic FPS tuning, real-time scenario detection, and intelligent resource optimization for gaming workloads.

AMD (AMD -1.82%)

Semiconductor company AMD announced a rack-scale computing platform called ‘Helios’ at CES 2026. The platform is capable of about 3 AI exaflops per rack, targeted at training trillion-parameter AI models.

This is a major leap in data-center compute density, making large-scale AI more accessible to enterprises. Its partners Blue Origin and OpenAI are already testing the technology.

The AI exaflops has been packed into a single rack using new Instinct MI455X GPUs and EPYC “Venice” CPUs. AMD also unveiled the Instinct MI440X GPU for its enterprise clients, designed for those looking for on-premises AI deployment without making massive investments.

The company also presented the MI500 Series GPUs at the event, which won’t launch until next year. It claims to offer up to 1,000x the performance of MI300X chips.

Then there’s the Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform, which will arrive in the next quarter to give programmers a dedicated desktop tool for AI development. The new Ryzen AI Embedded processors also bring AI processing to cars and robots, enabling them to make split-second decisions locally.

Intel (INTC + 3.45%) Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake)

Last week, Intel showcased its Core Ultra Series 3 processors, called Panther Lake, as the first compute platform built on its 18A semiconductor process, offering improved performance and battery life.

The latest processors feature a hybrid CPU architecture with significant gains in AI efficiency. It can deliver up to 50 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of compute, bringing powerful local AI processing to devices outside data centers.

This step toward ubiquitous edge AI follows Intel’s heavy backing from the US government. The government bought a 9.9% stake in the company by investing $11.1 billion last summer. The chipmaker has also secured major funding commitments from Nvidia ($5bln) and SoftBank Group ($2bln).

The company, whose stock price has rallied about 138% in the past year, said that it has already started shipping Panther Lake chips. Intel also showcased several laptops powered by these processors, with plans to deploy them in commercial, edge, and embedded systems later this year.

Boston Dynamics × Hyundai Atlas Humanoid

On the robotics side, Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its life-sized humanoid robot for the very first time. “For the first time ever in public, please welcome Atlas to the stage,” said Boston Dynamics’ Zachary Jackowski as the robot with two arms and two legs made its entry at the event.

Atlas was shown to be capable of fluid movement and guided by AI. It was named a winner of the Best Robot category in the Best of CES 2026 Awards.

Hyundai plans to deploy the adaptable, durable robot at its electric vehicle manufacturing facility by 2028. The company has already begun production of such a version that will help assemble cars.

The new and improved Atlas is designed to navigate complex environments, perform repetitive tasks, and constantly learn through AI. The humanoid robot has 56 degrees of freedom, featuring human-size hands capable of tactile sensing for assembly and machine tending.

The South Korean carmaker, which holds a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics, also announced a new partnership with Google’s DeepMind, which will supply AI intelligence technology to its robots.

LG CLOiD: General-Purpose Home Robotics Goes Mainstream

From the South Korean multinational conglomerate known for electronics and home appliances comes a home robot capable of household tasks and interaction, showcasing how robotics is moving beyond single-function designs into generalist household automation.

LG’s CLOiD features a pair of arms with seven degrees of motion. It is mounted on a mobile base with a bendable torso. The robot can perform tasks like folding and stacking your laundry, fetching something from the fridge, emptying your dishwasher, or putting food in the oven. It uses AI to handle more complex household tasks.

The robot can also coordinate with other smart appliances in the company’s ThinQ ecosystem, as CLOiD did in its demonstration. It commanded an LG vacuum to clean the floor while it folded the laundry.

LG’s robot’s ability to perform a wide variety of mundane tasks puts it far beyond existing home robots, which are primarily limited to a single task like mopping or vacuuming. CLOiD is still pretty slow.

SenseRobot Chess-Playing Physical AI Robot

CES 2026 gave us a glimpse into a world where robots are universal, coming in all shapes, sizes, and purposes.

For instance, Hong Kong-based SenseRobot’s chess-playing robot is a high-precision robot arm that plays and analyzes chess. It acts as both an opponent and a chess coach, correcting players’ inaccurate moves.

The company has combined advanced AI vision technology with decision-making intelligence (DI) to create this consumer-grade robotic arm, which is capable of millimeter-level control accuracy.

“Robotics descended upon CES 2026 as ‘physical AI’, turning breakthroughs in artificial intelligence into adaptable machines capable of delivering complex real-world outcomes,” said the CTA, the trade association that hosts CES. “Humanoid robots are emerging as a major frontier, moving from single-task roles toward collaborative assistants, while robotics overall is expanding across home, industrial, medical, supply chain, and mobility applications to improve safety, efficiency, and workforce resilience.”

Robotics at CES also included an AI-powered robo-chef, Nosh, that can cook over 500 dishes automatically across cuisines; a RoboTurtle designed to monitor coral reefs and fish populations by mimicking the way real turtles move through the water; and the Dreame X50 Ultra, which can navigate stairs and clean them as it goes.

AI-Enhanced Panasonic Power & Cooling Tech

To help build sustainable AI infrastructure, Panasonic has introduced energy-efficient solutions for power-intensive data centers, including advanced cooling, energy storage, and component materials.

This includes a distributed power system featuring “safety-designed” and “high-power” units to be installed in server racks for backup power during outages. It also showcased conductive polymer aluminum electrolytic capacitor and multi-layer circuit board material (“MEGTRON) for faster, higher-capacity information and communication infrastructure equipment.

Panasonic has also developed liquid cooling pumps and cooling compressors for AI-enabled data centers.

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Samsung Bespoke AI Home Appliances & Security Chip

The South Korea-based Samsung introduced a series of AI-driven appliances that optimize energy use and performance, blending sustainability with intelligent living spaces.

Its new AI-powered home appliances include the Bespoke AI AirDresser, which uses powerful air jets and high-temperature steam, along with AI, to refresh, sanitize, deodorize, and gently dry clothes, reducing wrinkles and eliminating dust, bacteria, viruses, and odors. Its high-end, robot vacuum and mop, the Bespoke AI Jet Bot Steam Ultra, features advanced AI for object recognition, obstacle avoidance, and home monitoring. It is equipped with a Qualcomm Dragonwing processor, a camera, an Active Stereo 3D Sensor, and Bixby integration.

Besides a new Bespoke AI Wine Cellar, the company also revealed its Bespoke AI refrigerator, which features voice-activated door opening and closing, powered by the built-in Bixby voice control. It’s built-in AI Vision will now use Google’s Gemini to recognize what you’re putting into and taking out of your fridge.

In addition to it all, the company aims to prevent health issues before they occur by integrating phones, wearables, appliances, and AI.

This wasn’t all that Samsung showcased to the world at CES 2026. The company also turned heads with its new Galaxy Z Üç Katlı concept and built anticipation for the upcoming Galaxy S26 series, which is expected to launch later this quarter.

One of Samsung’s major product announcements was S3SSE2A, an embedded CC EAL6+ security chip with hardware-based post-quantum cryptography to protect against future quantum threats.

As quantum computers become more capable, their ability to break traditional encryption increases, putting sensitive personal and enterprise data, as well as your Bitcoin (BTC + 0.26%), at risk. To prevent that, Samsung has designed S3SSE2A, which processes and stores data directly on the chip using advanced cryptographic algorithms. This hardware-level protection also supports secure device authentication and encrypted communication, which is significant for mobile, IoT, and connected devices.

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“By embedding quantum-resilient encryption within the silicon itself, Samsung enables designers to build smarter, safer systems ready for the next era of connected intelligence.”

Qualcomm Robotics & Automotive AI Architecture

At CES 2026, Qualcomm announced a complete robotics and automotive AI silicon architecture that promises efficient, scalable compute for everything from industrial robots to vehicle systems.

This full-stack architecture, called the Dragonwing IQ10 Series, integrates hardware, software, and AI.

To demonstrate the tech’s capability, Qualcomm has created a humanoid, the Motion 2 robot, in partnership with VinMotion, and is working with the likes of Figure, Autocore, Booster Robotics, and Kuka Robotics to integrate its AI technologies into humanoids.

The company is also planning to introduce a cheaper version of its Snapdragon X2 Elite chip called the X2 Plus, as increasing demand for RAM to power AI data centers continues to drive up the cost of electronics. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon X2 Plus, available in 10- and 6-core variants, will power more affordable laptops, promising more efficient AI processing at a lower price.

Meanwhile, as wearable tech made a comeback at CES, with pendants and brooches equipped with AI to act as personal assistants, replace phone interactions, and capture special moments, Qualcomm CEO noted that “new classes of personal AI devices are going to be a big opportunity.”

The company will be providing low-power processors and wireless connectivity chips for such gadgets.

Texas Instruments (TXN -0.32%) Automotive AI SoCs & Radar

At the event, Texas Instruments debuted the scalable TDA5 high-performance computing system-on-a-chip (SoC) family and the AWR2188, a single-chip 4D imaging radar transceiver. Together with its DP83TD555J-Q1 10BASE-T1S Ethernet physical layer (PHY), they make up TI’s automotive portfolio for next-generation advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).

Its new automotive SoCs and advanced 4D radar components are designed to accelerate Level-3 autonomous driving by enabling powerful edge AI and sensing for real-time vehicle decision-making.

With its new automotive semiconductors and development resources, the company aims to enhance vehicle safety and autonomy.

“The automotive industry is moving toward a future where driving doesn’t require hands on the wheel,” said Mark Ng, director of automotive systems at TI. “Semiconductors are at the heart of bringing this vision of safer, smarter, and more autonomous driving experiences to every vehicle. From detection and communication to decision-making, engineers can use TI’s end-to-end system offering to innovate what’s next in automotive.”

At the event, several other innovators showcased their creations. Chinese carmaker Geely Auto unveiled its G-ASD system to accelerate the transition to high-level autonomous driving. The company confirmed plans to pursue highway Level 3 and low-speed Level 4 autonomous functions in 2026.

Chinese lidar supplier Hesai, meanwhile, presented the upgraded version of its ATX lidar, with double the performance of its predecessor. Its detection range is 230 meters. Hesai has announced a partnership with the Nvidia Drive AGX Hyperion 10 platform to enable L4 autonomous driving.

Bosch also launched a new millimeter-wave radar that integrates sensors with AI to enable higher levels of autonomous driving.

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AI-Powered AR Glasses Signal Post-Smartphone Interfaces

The exhibition saw over 50 AI/AR glasses manufacturers showcasing their products, with a focus on lightweight design to support all-day wearability. With smart glasses projected to reach the critical point of large-scale development in 2026, Chinese manufacturers stand out for their advancement.

At this year’s CES, XREAL announced the upgraded version of their AR glasses, Xreal 1S, with an increased resolution from 1080p to 1200p Full HD, that too at a more affordable price of $449. The company also extended its strategic partnership with Google to introduce Android XR with optical-see through display.

Meanwhile, Rokid unveiled its AI plus AR glasses that are equipped with a Qualcomm AR1 chip. They support intelligent prompting, language translation, photo and video capture, real-time navigation, and the ability to call multiple large AI models.

CES 2026 Signals the Shift From AI Models to AI Systems

All these exciting, creative, and futuristic technologies demonstrated at CES 2026 have made it pretty clear that AI has now firmly moved into deployment at scale, being embedded in chips, robots, vehicles, data centers, and homes, making the foundation of modern technology.

Beyond physical AI, the focus is on edge processors, autonomous machines, power efficiency, on-device intelligence, security, and scalable compute, underscoring that the industry isn’t just about spectacle but about real-world impact.

As AI becomes ubiquitous and autonomy practical, CES 2026 points to a future where intelligent systems actively shape how industries operate and people live.

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