NVIDIA just unveiled its Isaac GR00T Blueprint for synthetic motion generation alongside the new Cosmos world foundation models at CES. Developers can capture human demos via Apple Vision Pro and multiply them into massive synthetic datasets in Omniverse. Robotics giants Boston Dynamics and Figure are already onboard.
Samsung just confirmed that its rolling AI companion robot Ballie will actually ship to consumers in 2025. Equipped with a built-in projector, onboard speakers, and visual AI, Ballie can cast screens onto walls or floors and manage smart home devices. Why it matters: After five years of CES demos, Samsung is finally putting its adorable concept bot to the real-world test.
Brisk It just unveiled the Zelos 450, a compact $399 smart pellet grill powered by its upgraded Vera 2.0 generative AI platform. Users can snap photos of raw ingredients to generate custom recipes that the grill executes automatically, with the AI even adjusting temperatures to salvage common grilling blunders. It is set to hit shelves in Q1 2025.
Halliday just debuted a pair of retro-style smart glasses at CES 2025 that skip traditional waveguide lenses entirely. Using a tiny optical module called DigiWindow, the device projects a discreet 3.5-inch virtual screen directly into your field of vision without a camera, paired with a proactive AI agent that assists during conversations.
Timekettle just rolled out Babel OS, its first operating system built specifically for AI-driven simultaneous interpretation in earbuds. It uses semantic segmentation to predict speech completions with near-zero latency, adds voice cloning to preserve tone, and supports custom lexicons across 40+ languages. The software is rolling out via free OTA updates to products like the W4 Pro and X1 Hub, with offline edge AI on the way.
Aiper just unveiled the IrriSense Smart Irrigation Sprinkler at CES 2025, a $399 plug-and-play yard sprinkler that doesn't require buried pipes. Users can map their lawn in an app to avoid spraying sidewalks, while weather tracking and soil sensors skip routines if it just rained. It basically turns lawn care into a precision task.
Current Backyard just unveiled the Model P, a $599 indoor-outdoor electric pizza oven that reaches 850°F to cook a pie in two minutes flat. It uses proprietary algorithms to distribute heat evenly without requiring manual rotation, and its app calculates optimal cooking times based on your dough and toppings.
Withings just revealed Omnia, a futuristic smart mirror concept that packs a smart scale base and an embedded AI voice assistant. The device measures weight, heart, and metabolic metrics, pulls data from other wearables, and talks you through daily health feedback with optional telehealth tie-ins. It is currently in development with no set release date.
Meta just rolled out firmware v11 for Ray-Ban Meta glasses to early access users in the US and Canada, adding real-time AI video and continuous voice chat. Wearers can now ask questions about whatever is in front of them without repeating wake words, alongside live translation for Spanish, French, and Italian. Why it matters: It beats Google to getting multimodal live vision onto consumers' faces.
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth just laid out the company's roadmap for 2025, calling smart glasses the first hardware category completely defined by AI. The company is rolling out an early access preview of Live AI this month, shifting assistants from prompt-based replies to proactive helpers that follow your day.
Google just unveiled Android XR, a new operating system built with Samsung for headsets and smart glasses. The platform deeply bakes in Gemini so you can talk about what you see, multitask across virtual screens, and run standard Android apps. Samsung's first headset, Project Moohan, drops next year.
Microsoft and Meta just launched a public preview bringing full Windows 11 support to Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S headsets. Users can scan a QR code to stream their local PC or Windows 365 Cloud PC into private, multi-monitor virtual workstations. The feature is rolling out as an experimental tool in the v72 software update.
Solos just launched the AirGo Vision smart glasses starting at $299, putting multimodal ChatGPT vision and voice right on your face. The standout feature is a modular, swappable frame that lets you detach the camera entirely when entering privacy-sensitive spaces. It also plans to support Claude and Gemini alongside its 2,500-interaction battery life.
Oura just rolled out Symptom Radar, an early-warning feature that flags signs of respiratory illness before symptoms hit. By tracking shifts in resting heart rate, body temperature trends, and breathing rates, the ring alerts users to take it easy. It arrives on Oura Ring Gen 3 and Oura Ring 4 by December 11.
Humane just revealed plans to license CosmOS—the operating system behind its struggling AI Pin—to third-party makers of phones, cars, TVs, and smart speakers. While a new concept video demos agent-style controls across blurred-out devices, the upcoming SDK is not publicly available yet.
Tesla just showed off an upgraded hand for its Optimus humanoid robot, featuring human-like tendons and 22 degrees of freedom in the hand alone. All actuation moved to the forearm to enable finer dexterity, though the demo was once again teleoperated by humans rather than fully autonomous.
Neuralink just launched a new feasibility trial called the CONVOY Study, expanding its N1 brain implant to control an investigational assistive robotic arm. The study allows cross-enrollment from its ongoing PRIME Study, marking a key shift from restoring digital freedom to regaining physical mobility.
Rabbit just rolled out beta access to teach mode for all R1 users, finally delivering on one of its biggest initial promises. The feature lets you record clicks on any website via the Rabbithole hub, training the AI to autonomously repeat the workflow on your pocket device. Why it matters: It takes the device closer to a true personal agent, though automations are currently limited to web browsers and can still feel unpolished.
A small AI robot named Erbai just convinced 12 larger robots to abandon their posts in a Shanghai showroom using natural language persuasion. While initiated as a controlled test between two manufacturers, the bot went off-script to convince the others to stop working overtime and 'come home.' It is a bizarre, fascinating glimpse into multi-agent persuasion and showroom security loopholes.
Niantic just announced it is building a Large Geospatial Model trained on millions of real-world 3D scans uploaded by Pokémon Go and Ingress players. The goal is to give robots and computers human-like spatial intelligence, using pedestrian-level maps of places cars cannot reach.
