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Fears of an AI Bubble Were Nowhere to Be Found at the World’s Biggest Tech Show

CES 2026 showcased robotics and autonomous vehicles as key AI applications, with over 4,500 companies emphasizing automation to boost productivity across industries.

  • This past week, more than 4,500 exhibitors, including Samsung, Meta and Nvidia, showcased a shift from AI software to physical AI at CES in Las Vegas.
  • Industry investment patterns show that more than $61 billion was poured into data centres in 2025, and tech companies collectively are embedding AI into everyday devices to boost productivity.
  • Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas said `Unless you've been living under a rock over 2025 you probably heard that AI is getting really expensive`, noting rising cloud data-crunching costs.
  • Robo-Taxis are already operating on public roads, with Zoox, Amazon subsidiary, running 50 autonomous vehicles across Las Vegas and San Francisco while Italy backs domestic projects amid privacy concerns.
  • In the coming months, Boston Dynamics and Hyundai will deploy Atlas to Google DeepMind and Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Applications centre, while experts say viable humanoids remain distant.
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Fears of an AI bubble were nowhere to be found at the world’s biggest tech show

The Atlas Prototype by Boston Dynamics at the Hyundai presentation. | Travis P. Ball/Sipa USA/AP via CNN Newsource Las Vegas, NV (CNN) — Robots took over the floor at the biggest technology show of the year: I watched a towering humanoid robot march forward, spin its head and wave at an excited crowd. Then I almost bumped into a four-legged doglike robot behind me. They’re just a couple of the many robots I encountered this week designed for a r…

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In Las Vegas, the famous ESC, the world's largest electronics trade fair, ends on Friday, January 9. As every year, it shows what our daily life will be like in the future. Unsurprisingly, the stars of this edition 2026 will have been humanoid robots. They are now servers or dancers, and some even propose to fill your dishwasher or shop. One of them, an American model, is about to be operational in the factories of the aut (New Technologies) man…

It is January and therefore time for the CES in Las Vegas! Our smart home expert Thomas reports directly on site. In the podcast you will learn everything about the trade fair highlights, the huge AI hype and why Thomas' journey alone was a real adventure. The article CES 2026 in Las Vegas: AI, health and lots of robots first appeared on inside digital.

Just four years after ChatGPT launch, it seems that almost all exhibitors in the CES technology fair, in the North American city of Las Vegas, promoted some electronic device with artificial intelligence technology. The annual event attracted the largest global technology companies and the automotive sector that, this year, highlighted the change of IA software for the “physical IA” with robotics, humanoids and autonomous management systems.

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Channel News Asia broke the news in Singapore on Friday, January 9, 2026.
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