Forget the robots, these are the best computing innovations at CES 2026

The CES show floor is often a wild, seemingly lawless place where you’ve got e-Bikes and vacuum cleaners next to dancing robots and beauty tech. While the show does attempt to categorize all the vendors into specific areas, the boundaries are often wobbly and it's easy to get lost in the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center or the Venetian Expo for days.

While the more sensational displays dominate most headlines, CES is still fundamentally a consumer electronics show. Of course, most attendees are dazzled by various iterations of the Boston Dynamics robot dog and autonomous cars, you can still find some gems of various computing innovations from VR and AR headsets to holographic displays to quirky design concepts.

After a few days of wandering the CES floor, these are the highlights of computing for CES 2026.