Check out some of the most impressive home-centric robots featured at CES 2026 so far.

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CES 2026 is officially turning the Jetsons dream into a reality as we watch robots evolve from simple vacuum pucks into genuine household companions. This year the show floor is crawling with machines that are smarter, faster, and honestly a bit more bizarre than anything we have seen before. Artificial intelligence has finally given these bots the brains they need to move beyond basic chores and into roles that feel almost human.

While half of the new lineup is obsessed with optimizing your life by scrubbing floors or sorting laundry the other half exists just for the chaos of it. We are seeing a massive surge in robots designed for pure nostalgia and entertainment proving that tech does not always have to be productive to be essential. Whether you want a mechanical butler to handle the heavy lifting or a quirky companion to keep you company the sheer 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 nteresting robots on the CES show floor this year. We'll keep adding more as we discover them, so check back often. Be sure to check out of most favorite robots, and the best products in 21 other categories in our Official Best of CES 2026 Awards.

CLOiD by LG

LG's home robot with laundry, cooking and dishwasher-emptying skills could mark a major turning point in home robotics. LG

While we don't quite have a Rosey from The Jetsons yet, LG's CLOiD robot promises a lot. Using a combination of artificial intelligence and vision-based technology, CLOiD can perform household tasks, such as cooking, laundry and more. The bot is integrated with LG's ThinQ ecosystem, meaning that you'll also need to have other LG appliances to get the most out of CLOiD. 

CLOiD looks like the humanoid robot future you'd expect it to. It consists of a head, torso, two arms and wheels for moving around. And it's about as inoffensive as it gets, giving off an almost cartoonish, cute vibe. LG's latest combines a series of functions into one robot, making CLOiD a pivot point in the work of home robot helpers. 

Roborock Saros Rover

Roborock's Saros Rover is more agile with its unique legs. Ajay Kumar/CNET

It's funny to think that one of the first "robot" assistants started out as a vacuum, and we're still trying to perfect the task. We've come a long way from the first generation of Roombas, and Roborock's Saros Rover shows us just that. One of the biggest tasks that robot vacuums have attempted to address over the years is how they navigate stairs and other obstacles, and the Roborock might be onto something with Rover's angled legs. 

The Rover's ability to clear stairs is indeed impressive, but it's far from a speed demon when taking on the task. When we saw the demo of the vacuum in action, it took nearly 40 seconds to clear five large stairs, though it managed to clean each stair on its way up. 

Pricing and availability for the Rover have yet to be revealed, but we wouldn't be surprised to see the leggy vacuum debut with a price tag of $2,500 or more. 

Sweekar

Yes, it's AI. But it's also so much more than that.

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Let's forget all those 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 with the Sweekar. Its schtick is that it will grow physically larger as you interact and raise it, first starting out as an egg with ears. The egg will eventually "hatch," revealing a display that becomes Sweekar's eyes. 

Sweekar has three life stages: baby, teenager and adulthood. To illustrate this further, the little bot's body physically grows bigger throughout each of these stages. Like older Tamagotchi devices, Sweekar requires more interaction and care in its early stages of life and becomes more independent and intelligent as it ages. And if you neglect the Sweekar, it will die, and you'll need to start over from scratch. 

This is a device that's all for fun but feels like a genuine successor to the pocket pets from the '90s 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!"

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A pivot away from the robots living in your home is a name that is often thought of when it comes to impressive but creepy robot prototypes: Boston Dynamics. Its latest general-purpose robot prototype, Atlas, now feels like the future.

The latest version of the humanoid bipedal robot, Atlas, can walk with a confident stride, which immediately tells you it's not like its predecessors. It's different and fluid. It also has 56 degrees of freedom, fully rotational joints and hands with tactile sensing capabilities. Its hardware is more powerful and dexterous, and that's just 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 will do so at Hyundai's manufacturing plant in Savannah, Georgia, the idea of Gemini powering the show isn't just impressive -- it's an important step in this space. 

Narwal Flow 2

The Flow 2 is Narwal's latest flagship vacuum and the company says it may have the best object avoidance yet.

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It wouldn't be CES without multiple robot vacuum announcements, so it's no surprise that more than one makes the list. The Narwal Flow 2 may lack the clever legs of the Saros Rover, but it's been updated with improved item avoidance capabilities -- something that still plagues existing robot vacuums today. The latest robovac combines AI cloud computing to detect more items to avoid, and it can even locate lost toys, so you don't have to. 

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