7 of the craziest tech products seen at CES 2026

CES 2026 has kicked off in Las Vegas, and honestly, this year’s show felt like someone accidentally greenlit a bunch of sci-fi movie props for production. We saw robots that want to do your chores, phones with cameras that literally pop out and follow you around, and a supercar that can hop over obstacles. Below are the eight best ones.

LG CLOiD

• LG really went all-in on the whole “robot butler” fantasy with CLOiD, a humanoid assistant that rolls around your house on a wheeled base. It’s got two arms with seven degrees of freedom each, and those hands have five individually actuated fingers.

That means it can actually fold your laundry, grab stuff from the fridge, and operate your appliances. The tech draws from LG’s robot vacuum division, so it knows how to navigate without bumping into your furniture. What makes this particularly wild is that CLOiD learns your preferences and moods over time. Eventually, it can proactively adjust your home’s settings before you even ask.

Honor Robot Phone

Honor has actually miniaturised a DJI Osmo Pocket-style gimbal small enough to fit inside a smartphone. When activated, it pops out from the back and can rotate 360 degrees, autonomously tracking subjects and stabilising footage without any external gear.

It works whether the phone is standing upright or lying flat, and it’ll follow you around a room using AI. Honor’s targeting China’s creator economy with this, and they’re planning mass production for the first half of 2026.

VITAL Belt

Japanese company D.O.N (not to be confused with the Shah Rukh Khan hit) decided that wearables shouldn’t require you to, well, wear anything new. VITAL Belt is exactly what it sounds like — a belt that tracks your health. It uses millimetre-wave sensing technology to measure breathing, pulse, and body movement even through your clothes.

The logic here is pretty clever. Your waist offers a unique vantage point for detecting changes that wrist-based devices might miss, and you’re already wearing a belt anyway. It cross-analyses data with your other wearables for more precise health tracking. This one’s scheduled for 2027 at roughly ¥30,000-50,000.

Dephy Sidekick

Dephy’s Sidekick is basically powered footwear that makes walking feel like you’ve got a subtle superpower. It’s a bionic system combining a proprietary shoe with a battery-powered module strapped to your calf. Using IMU sensors and a brushless motor, it learns your walking pattern in just 20 strides and gives you a push-off assist at toe-off.

Dephy says it addresses “Personal Range Anxiety,” which is that unspoken worry about how far you can walk before getting tired. It delivers over 100 pounds of joint offload, works on stairs and inclines, and ships January 25, 2026 for $4,500.

Boston Dynamics Atlas

After over a decade of those viral videos showing Atlas doing parkour and backflips, Boston Dynamics announced that it’s finally going into real production. The all-electric version has 56 degrees of freedom, fully rotational joints that can move in ways humans physically cannot, and tactile-sensing hands for precise manipulation.

It can lift 110 pounds, reach 7.5 feet, and learn new tasks in under a day. Hyundai plans to deploy these in automotive manufacturing starting 2028, and a partnership with Google DeepMind will give Atlas Gemini-powered AI capabilities. The company’s building a robotics factory capable of producing 30,000 units annually.

LEGO Smart Brick

LEGO claims this is their biggest innovation since the Minifigure in 1978, and they might not be exaggerating. The Smart Brick looks like a normal 2×4 brick but contains a custom 4.1mm chip smaller than a single stud, powering sensors, accelerometers, a tiny speaker, and LED arrays.

Place a Smart Minifigure near one and the system recognises its identity, responding with specific sounds and lights. Multiple bricks communicate via Bluetooth using something called BrickNet. The first sets launch March 1, 2026, featuring Star Wars themes with lightsaber hums, engine roars, and yes, The Imperial March.

Lenovo’s rollable laptops

Lenovo showed up with not one but two laptop concepts that stretch and expand. The ThinkPad Rollable XD Concept goes from a compact 13.3 inches to nearly 16 inches by rolling the display upward, giving you over 50 percent more screen when you need it.

But the Legion Pro gaming version is even more ridiculous. That thing can expand horizontally from 16 inches all the way to 23.8 inches ultrawide, hitting a 24:9 aspect ratio. Sadly, neither has production plans yet, but Lenovo’s clearly betting that the future of laptops is weird stretchy screens.