CES 2026: We Found the Robots That Actually Solve Real Housework Problems
CES 2026 officially turns the Jetsons’ dream into reality as we watch robots evolve from simple vacuum washers to true household companions. This year’s show is full of machines that are smarter, faster, and honestly a little weirder than anything we’ve seen before. Artificial intelligence has finally given these robots the brains they need to go beyond basic tasks and take on roles that seem almost human.
While half of the new line is obsessed with optimizing your life by scrubbing floors or sorting laundry, the other half exists solely for chaos. We’re seeing a massive explosion of robots designed for pure nostalgia and entertainment, proving that technology doesn’t always have to be productive to be essential. Whether you want a mechanical butler to do the heavy lifting or a quirky companion to keep you company, the wide variety of silicon life forms in Las Vegas is staggering.
Ready to see the future of robotics? Here are some of the best and most interesting robots featured at CES this year. We’ll continue to add more as we discover them, so check back often. Be sure to check out the most favorite robots and best products in 21 other categories in our Official Best of CES 2026 Awards.
CLOiD by LG
LG’s home robot, equipped with laundry, cooking and dishwasher unloading skills, could mark a major turning point in home robotics.
While we don’t have a Rosey from The Jetsons yet, LG’s CLOiD robot promises a lot. By combining artificial intelligence and vision-based technology, CLOiD can perform household tasks such as cooking, laundry and much more. The bot is integrated into LG’s ThinQ ecosystem, which means you’ll also need other LG devices to get the most out of CLOiD.
CLOiD looks like the future humanoid robot you’d expect. It consists of a head, a torso, two arms and wheels to move around. And it’s about as innocuous as it gets, giving off an almost cartoonish and cute vibe. LG’s latest combines a series of functions in a single robot, making CLOiD a central point in the work of home robot assistants.
Roborock Saros Rover
Roborock’s Saros Rover is more agile with its unique legs.
It’s funny to think that one of the first “robot” assistants started out as a blank, and we’re still trying to perfect the task. We’ve come a long way since the first generation of Roombas, and Roborock’s Saros Rover shows us exactly that. One of the biggest tasks that robot vacuums have tried to solve over the years is how they navigate stairs and other obstacles, and the Roborock could find itself on something with the Rover’s angled legs.
The Rover’s ability to navigate stairs is certainly impressive, but it’s far from a speed demon when performing this task. When we saw the vacuum demo in action, it took almost 40 seconds to navigate five large flights of stairs, although it managed to clean each staircase on the way up.
Pricing and availability for the Rover have yet to be revealed, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see the leggy vacuum cleaner debut with a price tag of $2,500 or more.
Sweekar
Yes, it’s AI. But it’s also much more than that.
Let’s forget all these robots with practical functions. If there’s a hole in your heart that only an AI-powered Tamagotchi-like robot can fill, your wish has been granted thanks to Sweekar. Its premise is that it will physically grow as you interact and raise it, starting as an egg with ears. The egg will eventually “hatch”, revealing a display that becomes Sweekar’s eyes.
Sweekar has three stages of life: baby, adolescent and adult. To illustrate this further, the body of the little robot physically grows in size with each of these stages. Like older Tamagotchi devices, Sweekar requires more interaction and care early in its life and becomes more independent and intelligent as it ages. And if you neglect the Sweekar, it will die and you will have to start from scratch.
This is a device meant for fun, but feels like a true successor to the 90s pocket pets that took the world by storm. The Sweekar will be available later this year for $150 on Kickstarter.
New Boston Dynamics Atlas prototype
Atlas says “hi!”
Moving away from robots living in your home is a name we often think of when it comes to impressive but scary robot prototypes: Boston Dynamics. Its latest versatile robot prototype, Atlas is now the future.
The latest version of the bipedal humanoid robot, Atlas, can walk with a confident stride, which immediately tells you he’s not like his predecessors. It’s different and fluid. It also features 56 degrees of freedom, fully rotating joints, and hands with touch-sensing capabilities. His equipment is more powerful and more skillful, and that’s only the half of it.
Parent company Hyundai also announced a partnership with Google DeepMind, which could power future robots. Although Atlas itself is designed for repetitive assembly line work and does so at Hyundai’s manufacturing plant in Savannah, Georgia, the idea of Gemini powering the show isn’t just impressive: it’s a milestone in this space.
Narwal Flow 2
The Flow 2 is Narwal’s latest flagship vacuum and the company says it offers perhaps the best object avoidance yet.
It wouldn’t be CES without several robot vacuum announcements, so it’s no surprise that several of them made the list. The Narwal Flow 2 may not have the smart legs of the Saros Rover, but it’s been updated with improved object avoidance capabilities – something that continues to plague existing robot vacuums today. The latest Robovac combines AI cloud computing to detect more objects to avoid, and it can even locate lost toys, so you don’t have to.
