Over 4,000 exhibitors flocked to Las Vegas, Nevada this week to showcase their wares at CES 2026. The Engadget team, as usual, was out in full force<\/a> covering the show. The week began with press conferences from huge companies at the show, mostly filled with AI buzzwords, vague promises and quite little in the way of hard news.<\/p>\n More than one company even decided to forgo announcing things during their conferences to make way for more AI chatter, only to publish press releases later quietly admitting that, yes, actually, they did make some consumer technology. It’s appropriate, I guess, that as we’re beginning to feel the knock-on cost effects of the AI industry’s insatiable appetite for compute resources \u2014 higher utility bills and device prices \u2014 companies would rather use their flashy conferences to reinforce AI’s supposedly must-have attributes rather than actually inform the public about their new products.<\/p>\n We’re by no means AI luddites at Engadget, but it’s fair to say that our team is more excited by tangible products that enrich our lives than iterative improvements to large language models. So, away from all of the bombast of NVIDIA’s marathon keynote and Lenovo’s somehow simultaneously gaudy and dull Sphere show, it’s been a pleasure to evaluate the crowd of weird new gadgets<\/a>, appliances, toys and robots vying for our attention.<\/p>\n Over the course of several days of exhaustive discussion and impassioned pitching, our CES team has whittled down the hundreds of products we saw to pick our favorites. Starting with an initial shortlist of around 50 candidates across a diverse range of product categories, we eventually landed on 15 winners and our singular best in show.<\/p>\n If you’ve been with us all week, stay tuned for a lot more to come \u2014 despite publishing almost 200 articles from the show already, there’s still plenty we have to tell you about. For now, though, here are our winners, each introduced by the editor most familiar with it. \u2014 Aaron Souppouris, Editor-in-chief<\/em><\/p>\nBest robot: Switchbot Onero H1<\/h2>\n
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