Gaming tech, foldables, wearables and AI gadgets from the likes of NVIDIA, Samsung, Pebble, Lenovo, Meta and Razer dominated the first day of CES 2026. With its XD Rollable concept, Lenovo took the Thinkbook Plus Gen 6's basic design and made it even more futuristic by allowing its flexible display to wrap around onto its lid. CES 2026's first official show day kept the pace up with a mix of near-term gaming upgrades, ambitious new form factors and a few reminders that not every gadget needs to do everything. NVIDIA announced important gaming news, we caught up with Samsung's tri-fold phone and Lenovo marched out an army of impressive looking gaming laptops and concept tech. Here are the biggest stories from January 6.

Segway's all-new Navimow X350 robot lawn mower is a big step up from its earlier Navimow I- and H-series, which remain available. Segway's all-new Navimow X3 series of robot lawn mowers boasts enhanced navigation savvy and onboard AI. The Navimow X350 reviewed here is a big step up from the Navimow i110n mower I reviewed in 2024. The Navimow i110n's navigation was the best in its class at the time, and its cutting performance is fantastic. That said, I found the older mower--which will continue to be available for sale--to be underpowered, and it had an uncanny ability to find its way onto the street during my review period due to its poor cliff detection.

If you're going to splurge on something this Prime Day, it might as well be on free time and a spotless yard. You can get both those things by getting 20% off one of these Segway Navimow i Series robot lawnmowers. Usually available for 1,299, the i110N is on sale for 1,039 on Prime Day, the lowest price it's ever had, while the i105 is down to 799 from its usual price of 999. The Navimow series of lawnmowers is exactly what you need if you want to gain more free hours during the weekends, and keep your lawn looking great while spending less time in the sweltering sun maintaining it. One of the best things about these Segway Navimow lawnmowers is that they don't even need a perimeter wire.

You likely have a smart assistant on your phone, a robot vacuum cleaner that sweeps and mops your floors, smart switches that turn off the lights without you even getting out of bed, a smart speaker that instructs your go-to assistant to play your favorite songs, and so on. Why don't you also have a smart robot lawn mower for your yard? The Segway Navimow i Series could be the missing link in your smart home setup. Segway's smart robot lawnmowers can be a great addition to any house, freeing up countless hours spent mowing for more pleasurable activities, such as spending time by the pool, having fun with the family, or just enjoying your hobbies. By adding a Navimow to your smart home setup, you'll get a perfect lawn without any of the effort usually required.

I'm sure some of you have looked at robo mowers as Roombas for your yard but, sadly, many of them require you to install a boundary wire around the perimeter of your lawn. And any product that requires you to dig a trench is the opposite of what "low effort" means to me. That's why I was interested in trying Segway's Navimow i105, its 945 (around 1,200) GPS-equipped mower which eliminates that busywork. And keeping your lawn neat and tidy is a job that's all busywork. Ask a gardener and they'll tell you the secret to a great lawn is to seed a piece of flat land and then mow it into submission.

Overnight, it seems a new technology called ChatGPT has captured the imagination of the Artificial Intelligence world. Suddenly, we are reading about it everywhere and an increasing number of companies, investors and industry watchers are talking about it. We are all excited and confused. So, what does this really mean? Let's take a closer look.

Endowing nonlinear systems with safe behavior is increasingly important in modern control. This task is particularly challenging for real-life control systems that must operate safely in dynamically changing environments. This paper develops a framework for safety-critical control in dynamic environments, by establishing the notion of environmental control barrier functions (ECBFs). The framework is able to guarantee safety even in the presence of input delay, by accounting for the evolution of the environment during the delayed response of the system. The underlying control synthesis relies on predicting the future state of the system and the environment over the delay interval, with robust safety guarantees against prediction errors. The efficacy of the proposed method is demonstrated by a simple adaptive cruise control problem and a more complex robotics application on a Segway platform.

Coco, the robot based delivery service, announced the official launch of COCO 1, a larger, more advanced version of its signature pink bot. The COCO 1 is a first of its kind delivery robot designed and manufactured in partnership with the largest micro mobility hardware manufacturer, Segway. Coco is currently deploying 1,000s of COCO 1 robots to serve local merchants in multiple cities, over the next few months. With its increased carrying capacity, the COCO 1 will deliver larger orders for a wider range of merchants, further eliminating the need for car-based delivery. Compared to the current model, the COCO 1 offers a number of added features including a more efficient drivetrain and a larger battery capacity that allows for an increased delivery radius of up to three miles, nearly double the radius of the original model.

This paper presents a framework for the safety-critical control of robotic systems, when safety is defined on safe regions in the configuration space. To maintain safety, we synthesize a safe velocity based on control barrier function theory without relying on a -- potentially complicated -- high-fidelity dynamical model of the robot. Then, we track the safe velocity with a tracking controller. This culminates in model-free safety critical control. We prove theoretical safety guarantees for the proposed method. Finally, we demonstrate that this approach is application-agnostic. We execute an obstacle avoidance task with a Segway in high-fidelity simulation, as well as with a Drone and a Quadruped in hardware experiments.

Segway is moving into the robot mower market with the Navimow. What sets this model apart from many others is that you don't need to install a boundary wire. Instead, Navimow uses GPS and other sensors to stay within the perimeter of your lawn. A so-called Exact Fusion Locating System can maintain Navimow's position accurate to within two centimeters, according to Segway. If the GPS signal ever dips, the company says the device's array of sensors and data ensure it will still work.