The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) feels like a big deal every year. But this year was different. At CES 2026, the show floor overflowed with many high-tech curiosities, as usual – a soft-plastic ...

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Robots at CES 2026 are smarter, more helpful and more fun. Here are our favorites so far.

Abstract: Whereas the reception task is a promising application domain for social robots, knowledge is lacking about how to design the appropriate re-usable communication styles for a reception robot.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Decades ago, the common hope was that, by the year 2000, we would be living in a full-on science-fiction utopia, with intelligent robots ...