Best of CES 2026: The smart home & home security gear edition

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. From smart locks powered by light waves to a robot lawn mower that can pick fruit, these are the coolest new smart products we saw in Las Vegas this year. The latest edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is already drawing to a close, and once again, we've seen some truly impressive smart home and home security innovations--and as usual, some are more likely to ship than others. We're not counting on the robot lawn mower that picks fruit and lobs tennis balls to canines to actually land in stores, but it certainly counts as one of the biggest attention-getters in Vegas this week. We also saw some far more practical smart products that wowed us, from the smart lock that's powered by light waves to the new go-almost-anywhere Ring sensors that connect to Amazon's growing patchwork of Sidewalk neighborhood networks.