CES 2026 made one thing clear: AI is no longer something we open in a browser. It is becoming the interface for everything around us. From humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles to edge AI, cooling breakthroughs, and voice-first homes, this episode explores how artificial intelligence is moving out of the cloud and into the physical world.
Recorded on the show floor and inside CES’s new “Foundry” experience, this recap covers NVIDIA’s compute platforms, Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid, AI-powered vehicles, Qualcomm’s edge strategy, and a deep dive into Frore Systems’ solid-state AirJet cooling technology. The common thread is simple but massive: performance, intelligence, and autonomy are now constrained less by software and more by hardware, thermals, and form factor.
We also zoom out to the bigger question CES raised this year: if AI is becoming a medium rather than a feature, what does that mean for our homes, devices, and daily lives? From robotics skepticism to voice-controlled AI hubs, this episode breaks down what is real, what is hype, and what is coming sooner than most people expect.
00:00 CES 2026 recap and first impressions
00:52 AI is no longer a tool, it is the new UI
01:06 Inside CES’s new Foundry and NVIDIA compute
01:50 Robotics, generative AI, and the future of household labor
02:07 Are we actually ready for robots in our homes?
02:19 Sponsor message
02:31 Meet Digit and the rise of humanoid robotics
03:29 Why CES has quietly become a car show
04:10 AI cars, edge compute, and on-device intelligence
05:01 NVIDIA-powered vehicles and Jensen Huang’s keynote moment
05:46 NVIDIA Blackwell, Rubin, and Piper explained
06:09 Where real CES business actually happens
06:31 Frore Systems and the AirJet cooling breakthrough
07:25 How solid-state cooling changes device design
08:47 Qualcomm reference designs and thin-form AI devices
09:35 Why AI moving to the edge changes everything
10:39 Thermal limits as the new performance bottleneck
10:59 Qualcomm’s AI hardware strategy
11:45 Who AirJet is actually built for
12:22 CES reflections and industry relationships
12:42 Voice, AI hubs, and a future with fewer screens
13:21 AI as a medium and final CES 2026 takeaways
