The Vergecast Live at CES 2026: What is the point of a robot that falls over?
TL;DR
CES 2026 shifted focus from TVs and cars to innovative hardware and robots, with discussions on their practicality and software needs. The Vergecast live episode highlights key stories and audience engagement.
This year's CES was an odd one. This is a conference usually dominated by futuristic, expensive TVs and futuristic, expensive cars, but those things weren't what dominated CES 2026. Instead, Las Vegas was filled with new ideas about old gadgets and showed us a whole lot of really impressive hardware waiting on software to catch up.
On this episode of The Vergecast, recorded live at the Brooklyn Bowl in Vegas, David and Nilay talk through some of the big stories from this year's show. (Thanks to everyone who came to see us and stuck around after for drinks and bowling - we had a blast hanging with all of you!) We talk about the robots that c …