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The CES 2025 tech trade show is finally over in Las Vegas, after a grueling six days for me and crowds that numbered 141,000.
As one of 6,000 journalists at the show, I walked around a lot to find the coolest tech. At or ahead of CES 2025, I recorded dozens of press events, interviews, and sessions. My conclusion? The robots are coming. And I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. OK, maybe just a few of them.
This year, I walked 46.79 miles, or 105,433 steps, over 5.5 days. Last year, I walked 46.78 miles, or 105,407 steps, over six days compared with 38.81 miles (or 87,447 steps) in 2023. My feet hurt but I managed to avoid the conference crud — and COVID.
I wrote 65 stories (67 last year) ahead of and during CES and I moderated one panel on AI and gaming. I have a lot more stories to write based on interviews I did at the show. This story is about the coolest tech I saw in Las Vegas. If you had some FOMO from not going to the show, maybe this list of 13 items will help you feel better.
CES Unveiled 2025 party. There were times it was not so easy to dive in.
As I said going into the show, I felt like this was an magical year for new technology, triggered by the gift of generative AI. That was so apparent in the opening keynote about AI by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, though he acknowledged in a Q&A that he might have communicated the big picture message better.
Now it’s time to analyze and make some sense of this. I hope you like these ideas, whether they are concepts or finished products. Here’s my list from last year at CES 2024, CES 2023 and the year before at CES 2022. This is the first time in a while I was able to get a selfie with Huang.
Dean Takahashi and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
This year featured nearly 4,500 exhibitors, up from 4,300 exhibitors in 2024 and 3,000 exhibitors in 2023, and 4,000 (in-person) in 2020. Instead of rolling around my roller bag, I heeded the no roller bag warning and wore a backpack. Feeling a bit stiff from that. Here are the things that caught my eye. In some cases, like smart mirrors, I realize there are many players coming to the market, but these are the ones I saw up close.
Nvidia is marrying tech for AI in the physical world with digital twins.
This was a significant announcement that was fairly difficult to grasp. In his opening keynote speech, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Cosmos world foundation model platform to accelera …