By the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show, the freshly opened showroom floors had filled with crowds moving past a familiar CES spectacle: robots by the thousands, AI companions and assistants, health and longevity technologies, and an expanding universe of wearables.
The day opened with a keynote from Siemens President and CEO Roland Busch, who described how customers are using artificial intelligence to reshape their operations.
He was joined onstage by Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, as the two companies announced an expanded partnership that Busch said would help launch a new, AI-driven industrial revolution across manufacturing, production and supply chain management.
Lenovo closed the day with a lavish presentation designed to show how its AI platforms can support individuals through wearables, businesses through enterprise tools and society more broadly.
To reinforce the message, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing appeared alongside a roster of industry heavyweights, including Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.
CES remains a once-a-year proving ground for companies large and small to preview products they hope will soon reach consumers. Day 2 offered a snapshot of where the industry believes technology is headed.
Razer leans into AI
Razer, long known for attention-grabbing gaming hardware such as haptic seat cushions and tri-screen laptops, used CES to push beyond its core audience. The company showed off two AI-powered prototypes: an over-ear gaming headset that doubles as a general-purpose assistant, and an AI desk companion that can both offer gaming advice and help manage daily tasks.
The desk companion builds on Project Ava, an on-screen AI assistant Razer introduced last year, but moves it into the physical world. The holographic device sits in a small glass tube near a computer and features an animated character with built-in speakers and a camera that can perceive its surroundings.
Both devices are model-agnostic, allowing users to choose their preferred AI system. In demonstrations, the headset, known as Project Motoko, ran on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, while Project Ava used xAI’s Grok. Razer said it expects both products to be released commercially later this year.
Robots on the tarmac
Oshkosh Corporation offered a vision of airports where autonomous robots help guide planes to gates and unload luggage after landing. At CES, the company unveiled a fleet of autonomous airport machines designed to manage what it calls “the perfect turn,” the tightly choreographed sequence of fueling, cleaning, cargo handling and passenger movement that occurs between flights.
For travelers, the promise is fewer delays without compromising safety. CEO John Pfeifer said the technology is also meant to keep airport operations running during extreme weather, such as winter storms or intense heat, when conditions can be dangerous for human crews. Testing with major airlines is already underway, with large hub airports like Atlanta or Dallas likely to be early adopters in the coming years.
A vacuum that climbs stairs
Roborock, a Chinese maker of robotic vacuum cleaners, drew attention with a machine that quite literally grows legs. The newly introduced Saros Rover uses articulated, chicken-like limbs to climb stairs and clean each step along the way.
During demonstrations, the vacuum moved deliberately as it ascended and descended staircases, stopping to clean each surface. Roborock said the device is designed to handle nearly any type of stairwell, including spiral designs. The company did not provide a release date, noting that the product remains in development.
A smarter health scale
Withings attracted crowds to its booth with an upgraded version of its Body Scan scale. Though it resembles a conventional bathroom scale, the Body Scan 2 measures far more than body weight.
In about 90 seconds, it records up to 60 biomarkers, including heart age, vascular age and metabolic indicators, using sensors embedded in foot and hand pads.
Priced at $600 and expected to be available in the spring, the device also assesses nerve health and tracks changes in electrodermal activity, reflecting sweat gland function.
A companion app, priced at $10 a month or $100 a year, offers personalized guidance and health trend analysis. The French company says the goal is to help users monitor their health and reverse harmful habits to support longevity.
Fusion energy gets an AI boost
Beyond consumer gadgets, CES also highlighted advances in clean energy. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Nvidia and Siemens announced a collaboration aimed at accelerating the development of nuclear fusion as a carbon-free power source.
At its Massachusetts facility, Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building a prototype fusion reactor known as SPARC, which the company says is about 70% complete. As part of the partnership, the team will create a “digital twin” of the machine, a detailed simulation used to test ideas and analyze data.
CFS CEO Bob Mumgaard said the simulation would allow researchers to pose questions and rapidly interpret results, compressing “years of manual experimentation into weeks of understanding.”
SPARC is intended as a stepping stone to ARC, the company’s first planned commercial power plant, which is expected to connect to the grid in the early 2030s. Mumgaard also said the first high-temperature superconducting magnet has already been installed in SPARC.
The technologies on display suggested a CES increasingly defined not just by flashy gadgets, but by AI systems meant to operate behind the scenes, reshaping how people travel, work, manage their health and produce energy.
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