The OLED evo W6 is a little thicker at 9mm, but it's been updated with a wireless receiver that can transmit signals up to 30 feet away. It's been nearly 10 years since LG first introduced its Wallpaper TV that was so thin that the mounting process felt like applying wallpaper. After eventually discontinuing the ultra-thin TVs in 2020, LG is finally reviving the Wallpaper TV series with the OLED evo W6 that will make its debut at CES 2026. LG is marketing the updated Wallpaper TV as the world's thinnest OLED that's truly wireless, making some major upgrades to the original. Instead of the companion soundbar that housed all the ports, LG designed the Zero Connect Box that hosts all the inputs and can transmit from up to roughly 32 feet away.

Sweekar turns the Tamagotchi into a physical AI pocket pet that won't die on you Well, it won't die if you can raise it to a certain level. Takway, a startup that wants to be the Nintendo of the AI robot era, has unveiled a Tamagotchi-like virtual pet at CES 2026 that's meant to go with you everywhere and develop a unique personality in the process. Sweekar is an AI companion built into a palm-sized toy, a cutesy egg-shaped device with ears and a screen for its face. As with a Tamagotchi, you'll have to feed and play with it to keep it happy and healthy, and its mood and facial expressions will reflect your care. But this virtual pet will remember your voice and the activities you've done together -- and once it's grown up, it will keep itself entertained, go off on its own virtual excursions (kind of like a Finch birb) and bring back tales of its adventures.

These cute little AI pets want to be your robot companions. CES 2026 is already shaping up to be an interesting year for robots. But while some companies are chasing humanoids that can help you do stuff, there are also a surprising number of robots whose main job is to be cute and keep you company. Japanese startup Ludens AI is showing off two extremely adorable robot companions at CES. Cocomo is an autonomous robot pet that can follow you around the house and respond to voice and touch. It has a fuzzy, egg-shaped body, but the version we saw at CES was wearing an orange suit with ears that made it look a bit like a teddy bear. It was moving around on a wheeled base, but it also has tiny legs if you prefer to carry it around and hold it.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. With everything from ultra-precise presence detection to Z-Wave LR integration, Xthings' Ultraloq smart locks aim to serve DIYers and security pros alike. Smart home brand Xthings is rolling out an ambitious lineup of new Ultraloq smart locks at CES, ranging from locks with cutting-edge biometric access to models designed for professional Z-Wave installations. The company says the new products are built to support both homeowners looking for advanced convenience and service providers managing connected security systems. Leading the pack is the Ultraloq Bolt Mission, a Matter-certified smart lock that uses Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to detect a user's precise location and automatically unlock when the user is physically at the door--not just nearby with their phone in a pocket or bag.

Narwal's first mattress vacuum heats, taps, UV-blasts and sucks up all the ick living in your bed At CES, the robotic cleaning brand also showed off its new flagship mop vac than can track down your pets. The Narwal U50 series mattress vac held aloft on the CES Unveiled floor. Narwal brought new cleaning robots with it to CES this year, including the Narwal Flow 2, it's latest flagship robo mop-vac, and the Narwal U50, an automatic mattress vac designed for "deep mite removal." While I'd hoped the latter vac was an automatic crawler that could navigate your mattress top, the U50 is a handheld device. Still, no one likes to think about what filters down into their mattress as they sleep -- and there are lots of opinions on how and why to remove those dead skin cells, dust, oils and the mites that arrive to dine on those things.

Some major retailers and independent stores have introduced AI body scans, CCTV or facial recognition equipment to identify crimes like shoplifting.

We study multi-user contextual bandits where users are related by a graph and their reward functions exhibit both non-linear behavior and graph homophily. We introduce a principled joint penalty for the collection of user reward functions $\{f_u\}$, combining a graph smoothness term based on RKHS distances with an individual roughness penalty. Our central contribution is proving that this penalty is equivalent to the squared norm within a single, unified \emph{multi-user RKHS}. We explicitly derive its reproducing kernel, which elegantly fuses the graph Laplacian with the base arm kernel. This unification allows us to reframe the problem as learning a single ''lifted'' function, enabling the design of principled algorithms, \texttt{LK-GP-UCB} and \texttt{LK-GP-TS}, that leverage Gaussian Process posteriors over this new kernel for exploration. We provide high-probability regret bounds that scale with an \emph{effective dimension} of the multi-user kernel, replacing dependencies on user count or ambient dimension. Empirically, our methods outperform strong linear and non-graph-aware baselines in non-linear settings and remain competitive even when the true rewards are linear. Our work delivers a unified, theoretically grounded, and practical framework that bridges Laplacian regularization with kernelized bandits for structured exploration.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Boasting edge AI plus Google Gemini processing in the cloud, each of the Xthings Ulticam products will support Matter. Xthings is expanding its Ulticam smart camera series with a fresh slate of models designed to boost security coverage and cut down on noisy low-value alerts. Among the highlights are a long-range camera system built on Wi-Fi HaLow, a powerful floodlight camera, a wire-free model with always-on video, and an upgraded flagship indoor/outdoor camera that integrates both on-device and cloud AI. The company says its new cameras are built around what it calls Intelligent Vision, a blend of object detection on the device (powered by onboard AI) at the edge of a user's network, and cloud-based contextual and threat analysis powered by Google Gemini.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Ultramarine robotic pool cleaner joins Ecovacs' home robot lineup Known for its robot vacuum cleaners, Ecovacs shipped its first robot mower in 2023. The Ultramarine is the company's first foray into robotic pool cleaners. Ecovacs, known for its robotic vacuums, lawn mowers, and window-cleaning systems, is taking the plunge--literally--with its first robotic pool cleaner: the Ultramarine. Unveiled at CES 2026, this marks the company's first entry into the space, with a model the company describes as "built from the ground up" to address frustrations users have with existing robotic pool cleaners on the market; namely, poor coverage, overly complicated control systems, and unacceptable device longevity.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Maytronics says its latest Dolphin Eon-series can scrub areas such as a swimming pool's steps and shelves as effectively they clean its depths. Maytronics is showing an expanded line of Dolphin robotic pool cleaners at CES this week. The Dolphin Eon series promises to work in shallow water--areas with as little as 8 inches of coverage--making them usable on steps, shelves, ledges, and zero-entry slopes (at least up to a point). More typical pool robots must be completely submerged in order to properly operate, limiting some larger robots to cleaning pool surfaces with a minimum water depth of 14 inches, leaving shallower areas for you to scrub.