Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

Category: History / Projects Dates attended: Ces 2025 (Jan 2026) Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV Summary: Jack organized a delegation to CES 2026, wrote the 2024 Annual Review there, and analyzed Jensen Huang’s “Age of Physical AI” keynote Last updated: 2026-04-06

Overview

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s largest annual technology trade show, held every January in Las Vegas. 130,000+ attendees, 4,000+ exhibitors, and the most concentrated display of near-future consumer and enterprise technology on the planet. CES is where companies announce what the next 12–18 months of tech will look like.

Jack organized a delegation to CES 2026 — the trip he coordinated, built a Notion Registration Guide for, and attended with Kevin Zhang, Max Lee, and others.

CES 2026

January 2026 — Las Vegas

Jack organized the trip, built a public-facing CES 2026 Registration Guide on his Notion (thejackluo.notion.site), and attended with his network. Attendees tracked in the CES People List (Notion database: 1328a2ee-f320-8063-94ce-d0a8e1113b98) included Kevin Zhang, Ryan Kim, Lucas Jaggernauth, and others.

Jack wrote his 2024 Annual Review during the trip — opening January in Las Vegas after closing December in Japan (Japan Trip 2024). Both experiences feed the same drive documented across his writing: a world that feels more alive, more advanced, more real.

The Jensen Huang Keynote

CES 2026 was defined by Jensen Huang’s Nvidia keynote — “The Age of Physical AI” — a 2+ hour address. Jack wrote a detailed analysis (documented in wiki/writings/ces-2026-nvidia-keynote.md).

Key announcements: - Physical AI — Nvidia’s framing: AI moving from digital to physical environments; robots that understand and navigate the real world - Cosmos — world foundation model for physical AI training - Isaac — robotics simulation platform - Nvidia Digits — a personal AI supercomputer - Digitally twinned factories — real manufacturing plants with full simulation counterparts

The keynote was widely considered the most consequential tech announcement of the show.

What CES 2026 Showed

• Humanoid robots — multiple companies showing walking, working robots in near-production form
• AI integration everywhere — the shift from “AI as feature” to “AI as baseline assumption” was visible across every product category
• Automotive — car company booths had become tech company booths with wheels attached
• Spatial computing — post-Apple Vision Pro, the show floor was full of AR/VR experiments

Jack came to CES 2026 already building Agentdex. The show was a calibration exercise: what is everyone else building, and where are the gaps?

Jack’s Wikipedia editing during November–December 2025 (expanding Humanoid Robot and Nvidia GTC articles) was CES 2026 preparation — building conceptual infrastructure before the show.

Why CES Matters to Jack

CES is a compressed reading of where technological investment is going. The products on the floor in January represent decisions made 18–24 months earlier. For someone building at the intersection of AI agents, automation, and enterprise software, CES is a calibration instrument. What is real? What is vaporware? Who is serious?

The Las Vegas context helps: CES takes over the city. Jack wrote his Annual Review there. Appropriate — CES is the moment when the previous year’s technical bets get graded by the market.

Related

• Ces 2025
• Ces 2026 Nvidia Keynote
• Japan Trip 2024
• Kevin Zhang
• Wikipedia Contributions
• Jack Luo

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