The company, Lyte, emerged from stealth on Monday after raising about $107 million to date from investors including Fidelity Management & Research, Atreides Management, Exor Ventures, Key1 Capital, VentureTech Alliance and a group of private investors led by the Israeli entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz.

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

Hyundai Motor Company announced that its MobED robotic mobility platform has been recognized with the Best of Innovation Award in the Robotics category at CES 2026. The award represents the highest honor granted within each category of the CES Innovation Awards program,

Mobileye made its name, and money, by supplying automakers with millions of computer vision chips designed to support automotive safety features and later advanced driver assistance systems. The Intel subsidiary and publicly traded company later expanded to tackle autonomous driving through its chips and software.

From laundry-folding robot butlers to fancy alarm clocks and lollipops that play music in your head, here’s a rundown of some of the top hits from the first two days of the conference.

Waymo, the largest purveyor of self-driven transport, says on its website that its robotaxis are “ the embodiment of fully autonomous technology that is always in control from pickup to destination.” Passengers “can sit in the back seat, relax, and enjoy the ride with the Waymo Driver getting them to their destination safely.”

A Chinese company founded under a year ago claims its AI-powered robot can perform a task many humans struggle with. It could end up being a big deal.

Roborock, a Chinese robotic vacuum cleaner brand, unveiled a concept device with two legs that can climb stairs in people’s homes, a flashy example of efforts to sell ordinary consumers on the idea of home robots.

At the end of the third quarter of 2025, Intuitive Surgical had placed 10,763 of its da Vinci surgical robot systems into service. That was up from 9,539 in the same quarter of 2024, a 13% increase. There is clearly strong demand for the company's high-tech medical devices.

The loud, powerful robot is the latest to come out of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. Landfills are full of old technology, like flat panel TVs that contain a bunch of materials like gold, silver and some that aren’t produced in the U.S. Getting to those materials isn’t an easy task.

From AI-driven robotics to biotech, and next-generation computing, the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show is full of innovative new technology.