# What to Expect at CES 2027: AI Gadgets, Robots and Smart Home Tech

> CES 2027 is January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas. Official dates, our forecast for AI gadgets and robots, and which already-shipping products you can buy today.

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**Short answer:** CES 2027 is January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas, at official CES venues. The show's own materials and CTA's public comments say AI is the dominant theme, with robots, smart glasses, health tech, PCs and mobility as the categories to watch. That category list is confirmed. Specific 2027 product names are not, and anything we expect below is labeled as our forecast. If you want an AI gadget you can buy today, start with products that already ship, such as [Ray-Ban Meta glasses](/ai-life/gadgets/ai-glasses/ray-ban-meta-gen-2-busy-parents/).

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## When is CES 2027, and where is it held?

CES 2027 runs **January 6 to 9, 2027**, in **Las Vegas, Nevada**. The dates and city are on [ces.tech](https://www.ces.tech/) and on [CTA's CES 2027 event page](https://www.cta.tech/events/ces-2027/). Registration is already open on the official site.

CES is not a single-building show. In recent years it has used multiple official venues across Las Vegas, including the Las Vegas Convention Center campus. This preview uses "official CES venues in Las Vegas" on purpose. A tighter venue list will be added if CTA publishes one that we can cite.

The one confirmed keynote with a time is Lenovo Tech World. CTA and Lenovo say it takes place at Sphere on Wednesday, January 6, 2027, at 5:00 pm Pacific Time, with Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang on stage, and that it will be streamed live. Sources: the [CES press release on the Sphere keynote](https://www.ces.tech/press-releases/lenovo-takes-ces-2027-keynote-to-new-heights-with-immersive-experience-at-sphere), [Lenovo's October 7, 2026 announcement](https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/tech-world-ces-2027-defining-the-next-era-of-hybrid-ai/) and [Lenovo's Tech World page](https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/events/techworld/). Lenovo has said the keynote will cover its Hybrid AI work across PCs, phones, wearables and other devices. That is a theme, not a product list.

Other keynotes, including a gaming keynote CTA has said is coming, had not been named when this page was written. We will add them when they are announced, and we will not invent a speaker or a time.

If you are not attending, you do not need a badge to follow the buying-relevant news. Brands usually stream the big keynotes. We will update this page and the [CES hub](/ai-life/events/ces/) as official details land, then add a live "best of" page during the show.

## What AI gadgets is CES 2027 likely to show?

**This section is our forecast.** It is not a leak list and it is not a confirmation of any 2027 product. The reasoning is simple: take what CES and CTA have already said about 2027, then look at what the official CES 2026 wrap-up treated as the important consumer categories.

What is already on the record for 2027:

- CTA has said AI is the dominant theme, with the conversation shifting from models toward products in health, entertainment, smart homes, transportation and enterprise systems. Kinsey Fabrizio, CTA's CEO, said this in a [GamesBeat interview](https://gamesbeat.com/ces-2027-preview-ai-enters-its-deployment-era-cta-ceo-kinsey-fabrizio-exclusive-interview/).
- The same interview says CES 2027 is expected to have more exhibit space than 2026 and more exhibitors than the 4,100-plus companies at CES 2026. Mobility is called out, with Ford and Stellantis returning and autonomous operators such as Waymo, Zoox and Uber on the floor. Robotics is planned for North Hall and South Hall. The CES Foundry program, focused on AI and related technology, is expanding to a third day.
- Lenovo's confirmed keynote is about Hybrid AI on personal devices as well as enterprise systems, which is a strong signal that AI PCs and related personal hardware will have a prime-time slot on opening day.

What last year's official wrap-up tells us, from [CES 2026: The Future is Here](https://www.ces.tech/press-releases/ces-2026-the-future-is-here): CES 2026 also ran January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas, with more than 148,000 attendees, more than 4,100 exhibitors (about 1,200 of them startups) and 2.6 million net square feet of exhibit space. CTA's own highlight categories included AI, robotics under the "physical AI" label, and smart glasses and wearables, including glasses with voice interfaces, translation and recording. Those are the consumer lanes that already had official attention.

**Our forecast** is that the 2027 floor, for people who actually want to buy something in the next year, will again be led by:

1. **Home and service robots**, including vacuums, mowers and a larger wave of humanoid or "companion" demos. Many of those demos will not be buyable in January. Some vacuum and mower updates will be.
2. **AI glasses and other wearables**, building on the 2026 glasses-and-wearables push. Treat concept frames as concepts until a brand names a price window and a ship date, which this page will not invent.
3. **AI PCs and laptops**, with Lenovo's opening-night slot making this the easiest opening-day category to follow even if you only watch one livestream.
4. **Health devices**, from wearables to monitoring hardware, which CTA has already flagged for 2027.
5. **Mobility**, which will dominate photos from the show and matter less for an immediate Amazon cart, unless you are shopping for in-car tech such as a dash cam or a cleaner Bluetooth setup.

We are not naming unannounced 2027 models. If a rumor does not come from the brand or from CES, it does not belong in this preview as a fact.

## Which CES categories matter if you want to buy something this year?

CES is a launch stage, not a store. The useful question is which announcements tend to turn into products you can actually purchase in the following months, and which ones stay on the stand.

**Home robots.** This is the CES category that most often turns into a purchase on this site. Robot vacuums, mowers, window robots and pool robots already have mature buying guides: [best robot vacuum for pet hair](/ai-life/home/robot-vacuums/best-robot-vacuum-pet-hair/), [wire-free robot mowers](/ai-life/home/robot-mowers/best-wire-free-robot-mower/) and [companion robots](/ai-life/home/companion-robots/home-companion-robots-novelty-or-useful/). **Our forecast:** you will see plenty of humanoid and "does chores" demos, and a smaller set of real vacuum or mower refreshes with a ship window. If you need a vacuum this month, last year's shipping models are the honest buy, not a prototype on a Las Vegas carpet.

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**AI glasses.** CES 2026 already treated glasses as a main wearables story. The glasses you can buy now, and compare in our guides, include [Ray-Ban Meta](/ai-life/gadgets/ai-glasses/ray-ban-meta-gen-2-busy-parents/) and the alternatives in [best AI glasses beyond Ray-Ban](/ai-life/gadgets/ai-glasses/). **Our forecast:** more frames will be shown with translation, cameras and voice assistants. Battery life, weight and whether the AI requires a paid plan will still be the buying questions, just as they are on the guides today.

**PCs and laptops.** You should watch the Lenovo keynote even if you are not a Lenovo customer, because other PC makers often announce around the same week. **Our forecast:** the marketing will say "AI PC" again. The useful details will be battery life under real AI features, whether the interesting parts work offline, and whether the machine is for sale this winter or only later in 2027. We will not invent those ship dates here.

**Health and sleep tech.** CTA has already pointed at health as a 2027 theme, and CES 2026 highlighted rings, watches and hearing-related wearables. If you are shopping now, start with the [smart rings](/ai-life/health/smart-rings/) guides rather than waiting for a concept ring that may not ship.

**Smart home and speakers.** The incremental CES news is often a new smart display, a hub, or an on-device assistant feature. Compare what you can already buy in [Sonos vs HomePod vs Echo vs Nest](/ai-life/assistants/smart-speakers/sonos-vs-homepod-vs-echo-vs-nest/). Echo devices are frequently easy to find, which is why they are linked here as a current option, not as a CES 2027 exclusive.

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**Voice recorders and meeting gadgets.** CES 2026's official AI exhibitor list included names such as Plaud and Omi, which already sit in our [AI recorder](/ai-life/gadgets/ai-recorders/) guides. **Our forecast:** more clip-on and wearable recorders will show up. Consent, storage and whether the tool works without a subscription will matter more than a new chip name. I already use a [Pocket AI recorder](/ai-life/gadgets/ai-recorders/pocket-vs-plaud-month-of-meetings/) for meetings; that is a current product, not a CES 2027 announcement.

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**TVs, appliances and cars.** These fill the halls and the photo galleries. They matter if you are in the market for a television, a camera oven or a new car. They are a weaker fit for a "buy it this week" gadget list, so they will be covered on the live best-of page only when there is a real consumer product with a path to a store.

## Should you wait for CES 2027 before you buy an AI gadget?

It depends on how urgent the job is, and how often that category actually changes in a way you can buy.

Wait, or at least wait through the second week of January, if:

- You want a flagship robot vacuum, an AI PC or new glasses, and your current setup still works.
- You can sit tight until spring. Plenty of CES hardware is announced in January and ships later.

Do not wait if:

- You already picked a shipping model from one of the guides above and you need it for a chore you do every week.
- The product you want is a mature category where CES often shows a prototype, not an immediate replacement. Companion robots are a good example: many stage demos do not become a product you can order.

A practical way to decide: if you would still buy the current model after a rival is announced, buy the current model. If a single announcement would change your mind, wait for the show week, then wait again until a ship date is real. The [CES hub](/ai-life/events/ces/) is where those follow-ups will live, next to the [events calendar](/ai-life/events/) for later shows such as MWC, Computex and IFA.

If you are buying a gift before the holidays, use the [AI gadget gift guide](/ai-life/gadgets/gift-guides/ai-gift-guide-2026/) rather than betting on a January announcement. How I judge owner reviews versus research-based picks is on [How I evaluate](/ai-life/how-i-evaluate/).

## How will AI Life cover CES 2027 as it happens?

This preview stays at `/ai-life/events/ces/what-to-expect/` and will be updated when official details change. During the show, a "best AI gadgets of CES 2027" page will go live on the [CES hub](/ai-life/events/ces/) and be updated as announcements land. After products are actually available, a "where to buy" follow-up will link to the matching product guides. We will not add a product to that follow-up until it is for sale, and we will not invent a price or a ship date.

The standard on every CES page is the same as the rest of AI Life: cite the source, label a forecast as a forecast, and keep Amazon CTAs limited to products you can buy today, with no hardcoded prices.

## FAQ

### When is CES 2027, and is it open to the public?

CES 2027 runs January 6 to 9, 2027, in Las Vegas. It is an industry show, not a public shopping fair. Credentialed attendees, exhibitors and media go to the venues; most people follow it through coverage like this preview and the livestreams brands announce.

### Will CES 2027 products be for sale during the show?

Usually not on the show floor. Some announcements come with a ship date or an immediate preorder, and many are prototypes or later-year launches. This page will not invent a sale date. The later where-to-buy page will only list products that are actually available, with links to check today's price.

### What is confirmed for CES 2027 so far?

The dates, the city, registration being open, Lenovo Tech World at Sphere on January 6 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time, and CTA's public comments that AI, robotics, mobility, health and smart home will be major themes. No full 2027 product list is official yet.

### Should I wait until after CES 2027 to buy an AI gadget?

Wait if you want a category that CES often refreshes, such as premium robot vacuums, AI PCs or new glasses, and you can live with the current one for a few more months. Buy now if you already know the model you want and it is shipping, because CES news can take months to reach stores.