The 13 most useful smart home devices I've seen at CES 2026 (and would buy if I could)

We've seen robot vacuums spell upstairs earlier with a prototype carrier, but we've ne'er seen a robot vacuum seemingly turn legs and ascent stairs. The Roborock Saros Rover is simply a robot vacuum with wheel-legs, which unfold erstwhile the robot has to spell upstairs. Imagine a idiosyncratic crouching, past straightening their legs to basal tall; this is what the Saros Rover looks similar erstwhile its legs rise its assemblage astir a ft disconnected the ground.

Also: I saw a two-legged robot vacuum ascent up stairs astatine CES, and it blew my mind

After seeing the Rover successful person, I'm adjacent much impressed than I was erstwhile I archetypal saw it connected video and convinced that this is the champion of CES successful astute location tech. The robot's wheel-leg architecture allows it to navigate up and down a staircase, stopping astatine each measurement to cleanable it. The Saros Rover tin adjacent tilt, crouch, and hop arsenic needed to debar obstacles. While the Saros Rover hasn't been released yet, Roborock has confirmed it is processing it for launch.

The Lockin Veno Pro and Lockin V7 Max are fantastic astute locks that don't necessitate you to ever recharge oregon regenerate their batteries. Instead of utilizing a removable battery, this fastener uses Lockin AuraCharge, an outer instrumentality that you plug successful astir 4 meters away. 

The AuraCharge is simply a transmitter that shoots an invisible airy beam to your astute lock, continuously powering its battery.

The Lockin Veno Pro is simply a deadbolt astute lock, whereas the V7 Max is simply a Mortise lock, which is little communal successful the US than the former. The Veno Pro is expected to deed the marketplace this year, with a retail terms of astir $350. 

Also: I conscionable saw 1 of the coolest caller astute locks successful enactment astatine CES

The V7 Max has dual cameras and displays to besides amusement you who's astatine the door, and is planned for Q3 2026, but it's expected to outgo upward of $1,000.

I stake you've ne'er seen a robot carpet cleaner, right? That's due to the fact that determination are nary -- oregon determination were none, present that Robotin is entering the market. The Robotin R2 is simply a modular robot carpet cleaner that tin wash, scrub, and adust your carpets autonomously. On the modular side, this robot features a removable vacuum module that tin beryllium replaced with a carpet cleaner, enabling it to execute some vacuuming and carpet washing successful a azygous operation.

Admittedly, this robot's basal presumption is rather large, arsenic it needs to location the assorted modules and 2 cleanable h2o tanks to guarantee it has capable h2o to implicit its cleaning tasks. Unfortunately, there's nary acceptable day for erstwhile the Robotin R2 volition beryllium released to the market, though it is presently successful production. 

Google TV is introducing caller generative AI features that are awesome capable to person immoderate Alexa idiosyncratic to power to Google's dependable assistant. The caller features see Dive Deeper, a Nano Banana model, and Veo, and volition beryllium disposable arsenic a escaped OTA update to TCL Google TVs initially, but volition besides beryllium accessible connected the Google TV Streamer.

Aside from astute location control, your Google TV volition besides beryllium capable to edit your photos and make artwork and videos from them. I watched arsenic Google demoed editing a photograph of a pistillate and her canine astatine the formation to look similar a cartoon, past asked Gemini to make a video of the pistillate playing fetch with the canine with the aforesaid cartoonish look.

Also: Your Google TV is getting respective utile Gemini features soon - these models included

Gemini volition besides make briefs for you to drawback up connected your favourite sports, implicit with a caller ocular layout and adjacent a narrator with a sportscaster voice.

The Navimow X4 is Segway's newest flagship robot mower, announced astatine CES 2026. This almighty robot mower requires nary RTK antenna oregon bound wire; instead, it uses precocious exertion that combines sensors, cameras, and LiDAR to navigate. The X4 besides has an all-wheel thrust (AWD) strategy that tin grip inclines arsenic steep arsenic 84% oregon 40 degrees. 

The X4 robot mower features an wholly antithetic plan from its predecessor, departing from what had astir go Navimow's signature rounded design. Instead, the Navimow X4 features the aforesaid racecar look that was popularized with the Mammotion Luba 2, a plan that different brands, including Roborock, person since adopted. The X4 is opening pre-orders connected January 16, starting astatine $2,499 for the X430, which covers up to 1 acre, and $2,999 for the X450, which covers up to 1.5 acres.

The Govee Ceiling Light Ultra is my favourite astute airy of CES 2026. Govee is taking thing that you wouldn't deliberation to look astatine doubly (a ceiling light) and transforming it into a signifier of entertainment, ambiance, oregon attraction. Aside from offering a almighty 5,000lm, the Ceiling Light Ultra features a 616-pixel matrix that displays preset oregon AI-generated designs.

This could beryllium utilized arsenic a agleam ceiling airy for immoderate room, with a achromatic somesthesia scope of 2,700K-6,500K. It could besides service arsenic a customizable attraction successful a business, acknowledgment to pixel-level editing, oregon arsenic a replacement for a airy fixture successful a child's room. Govee hasn't announced the motorboat day of the Ceiling Light Ultra, but it is expected to deed the marketplace this year.

This caller astute fastener features UWB technology, allowing it to unlock wirelessly erstwhile idiosyncratic with a compatible smartphone approaches the doorway from the outside. A acceptable of sensors tin observe erstwhile idiosyncratic is walking from which direction, truthful the fastener lone opens erstwhile there's a idiosyncratic walking straight to the doorway and not erstwhile they locomotion past it.  

While we've seen different UWB astute fastener by Ultraloq (which is present disposable for purchase), the Aqara U400 is $30 cheaper, astatine $270, and besides supports Apple Home Key and fingerprint recognition, dissimilar its competitor. 

This $50 instrumentality easy mounts connected a model without the request for drilling and features 2 2.5K cameras: an outward-facing 1 and different that faces inward into your house. The Botslab W101 Window Camera tin observe erstwhile idiosyncratic delivers a package, making it a suitable alternate to a video doorbell successful homes wherever installation is not possible. This makes it an enactment for apartments and areas wherever other visibility is needed, specified arsenic a patio doorway oregon window.

Though you tin usage the camera's carnal screen to disable the indoor-facing camera, having some cameras connected a model wherever a favored likes to look could besides connection a much amusive usage case. 

The caller Narwal Flow 2 is expected to execute amended than its predecessor, though the Narwal Flow was good received. Narwal is showcasing its caller flagship robot vacuum and mop, featuring an outstanding 30,000Pa of suction powerfulness and a way mop that tin use 12N of downward unit during cleaning.

The champion portion astir the Flow 2 is astir apt its intelligence. This robot is astute capable to not lone admit objects connected the floor, but besides punctual you of misplaced items oregon toys, and tin adjacent emblem these connected a representation with a precedence order. The robot vacuum uses AI to process its surroundings and tin set its cleaning accordingly, specified arsenic decreasing the sound erstwhile cleaning adjacent a crib.

Also: This robot vacuum astatine CES 2026 tin find mislaid items connected your level and alert you of them

The Narwal Flow 2 is expected to motorboat successful April 2026. Though pricing info hasn't been announced, we tin expect it to outgo astir the aforesaid arsenic its predecessor, priced astatine $1,500.

It's hard for maine to enactment however overmuch I'm looking guardant to the SwitchBot Weather Station into words. This is simply a 7.5-inch E-Ink show that ever shows the date, time, sunrise and sunset information, aerial quality, humidity, and a play forecast. The show besides features a fastener to presumption your calendar and offers cute quotes, arsenic good arsenic AI-generated upwind recommendations, specified arsenic suggesting you bring an umbrella erstwhile needed.

The Weather Station features 2 automation buttons that you tin property to trigger a scene, specified arsenic turning disconnected each the lights successful 1 country earlier furniture oregon opening the windows and switching connected the lights successful the morning. The SwitchBot Weather Station is coming soon, though a terms hasn't been announced yet.

Pool cleaning robots person been a salient beingness astatine CES implicit the past 2 years. Even if I don't person a excavation to trial them astatine home, I person to admit that the exertion has precocious significantly. 

Beatbot is simply a excavation cleaning robot institution that is expanding the convenience of these devices with an award-winning innovation: the AquaSense X ecosystem. This charging dock cleans the excavation cleaner's debris handbasket for you and deposits the debris into a bin, truthful each you person to bash is dump it retired each mates of weeks. 

EcoFlow announced a caller astute location collaboration by partnering with Homey by LG and a caller Ecosystem Alliance. The concern volition let for deeper interoperability betwixt EcoFlow's strategy and Homey's unfastened astute location platform. 

The Ecosystem Alliance includes EcoFlow and implicit 15 astute location brands, including Shelly, Google Nest, Bosch, and others. The extremity is to connection a much seamless location vigor absorption acquisition by connecting EcoFlow to different astute location devices to make automations.

Imagine going market buying with a database that connects straight to your fridge. When you bring location your food, you tin adhd the expiration dates and past person your fridge make recipes according to what expires sooner. When you take a recipe, your oven starts preheating to that recipe's circumstantial temperature, and past your dishwasher volition lavation your dishes according to the benignant of nutrient you've cooked. 

That's what Hisense is selling with its much innovative room suite: AI-powered astute appliances that tin enactment unneurotic for you. These AI agents tin larn from your habits and collaborate with different devices. The ConnectLife appliances volition beryllium disposable astatine Lowe's and done Hisense.