Dominated by the continued rise of synthetic intelligence and a few attention-grabbing visions for client electronics, the occasion provided a glimpse of what we will anticipate to see available on the market later this 12 months.
From a rollable laptop computer display to an umbrella with photo voltaic panels and even a “private AI supercomputer” that matches in your desk — right here’s a have a look at the tech which captured our consideration essentially the most.
Robotic vacuums get arms (and legs)
Not content material with merely zooming round, robotic vacuums are rising additional appendages left, proper, and centre.
On the left and proper sides we’ve the Dreame X50 Extremely, which has two small legs which the corporate says can push it up a step as excessive as 6cm.
Some robotic vacuums have already been in a position to tilt up barely to recover from small rises and thick rugs, however a 6cm climb is (actually) an enormous step up for vacuum tech.
Beforehand solely an idea design, Dreame’s new flagship mannequin gained the CES 2025 Worldwide Breakthrough Award and is predicted to go on sale later this 12 months.
The Dreame X50 Extremely robotic vacuum. Picture: Dreame / Provided
When it got here to central appendages, Roborock’s new Saros Z70 vacuum — additionally coming this 12 months — impressed onlookers with its capability to choose up objects akin to socks whereas driving round cleansing the ground.
The vacuum’s five-axis robotic arm, known as the OmniGrip, might decide up issues weighing as much as 300 grams, Roborock stated, and will establish different objects akin to beanies, items of paper, and small towels.
The corporate confirmed the characteristic might be disabled if mandatory, and there may be an emergency button and little one lock to forestall an I, Robotic Vacuum scenario.
Lenovo’s rollable laptop computer display
First displayed as an idea design two years in the past, Lenovo’s laptop computer with a versatile and retractable show is now going into manufacturing because the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6.
The system can roll out vertically from a 14-inch OLED show to a 16.7-inch show after urgent a devoted button or making a gesture to the pc’s digital camera.
The laptop computer is designed primarily for enterprise professionals and would assist folks get extra work executed, Lenovo stated.
It may be fairly helpful for watching vertical video (à la TikTok) or streaming an additional window of content material when you work — however you didn’t get that concept from us!
The laptop computer is predicted to begin at round $5,500 ($US3,499).
Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6. Picture: Lenovo / Provided
Nvidia’s ‘private AI supercomputer’ and online game helpers
Nvidia, which dominates the AI chip market and has grown to be one of many world‘s most dear firms, confirmed off some attention-grabbing makes use of of its newest tech.
Founder and CEO Jensen Huang unveiled “a private AI supercomputer” known as Venture Digits, which gave the impression to be very highly effective regardless of its comparatively small dimension.
The product would supply a petaflop of AI computing efficiency “for prototyping, fine-tuning and working giant AI fashions”, Nvidia stated, which means it might perform a thousand trillion calculations per second.
“Inserting an AI supercomputer on the desks of each knowledge scientist, AI researcher, and scholar empowers them to interact and form the age of AI,” Huang stated.
Venture Digits is predicted to be accessible in Might, beginning at round $5,000 ($US3,000).
Nvidia’s Venture Digits AI supercomputer. Picture: Nvidia / Provided
Nvidia additionally confirmed off some attention-grabbing purposes of AI for avid gamers, together with an improve to the everyday non-playable characters (NPCs) we’re used to seeing in video video games.
The corporate says it’s increasing the autonomous sport characters it first launched in 2023, which it calls ACE, into “autonomous sport characters that use AI to understand, plan, and act like human gamers”.
These characters would be capable to make selections whereas utilizing visible and audio knowledge to understand their in-game environments, Nvidia stated.
Right here’s an instance the corporate shared of how it will work within the widespread sport PUBG: Battlegrounds.
If you happen to assume you would possibly want much more assist, gaming {hardware} firm Razer touted an “AI gaming copilot” which it stated was designed to make its customers higher at video video games.
The corporate stated its Venture AVA system would run by “hundreds of thousands of sport simulations inside seconds” to assist customers get immediate professional recommendation “with out ever having to tab out”.
A beta launch is within the works for “later in 2025”.
This ‘telephone toaster’ swaps batteries
Again on the quirkier facet of CES, an organization known as Swippitt drew consideration with its battery-swapping Swippitt Hub, which some reporters agreed regarded like “a telephone toaster”.
When a telephone in a particular Swippitt battery case is positioned contained in the system, it robotically replaces the drained battery with a charged one in simply two seconds, the corporate stated.
The Hub holds 5 charged batteries internally, which it then pulls out and in of the case on the consumer’s telephone.
“This know-how will change how folks take into consideration battery administration and assist cleared the path in the direction of a better, easier path to energy cellphones,” Swippitt founder and CEO Padraic Connolly stated.
The system is predicted to ship in June for iPhone fashions, with assist for Android telephones later in 2025.
The Swippitt Hub. Picture: Swippitt / Provided
A photo voltaic panel umbrella
Charging firm Anker used CES 2025 to unveil what it known as “the primary solar-powered umbrella”, which might cost units on the go.
The Anker SOLIX options photo voltaic cells made with perovskite, a sophisticated and versatile materials which has additionally been utilized by Australia’s CSIRO.
The Anker SOLIX Picture: Anker / Provided
The tech permits the umbrella to be foldable and have some water and dirt resistance.
Anker claims it additionally improves energy technology in each shiny and low-light circumstances.
The umbrella is predicted to be launched in mid-2025 — and if it involves Australia, simply take into consideration all the daylight you possibly can flip into screentime.
