Future of Robots on Display at CES
Bloomberg Tech
Bloomberg
4.5 • 49 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Humanoid robots have been folding laundry, lifting boxes and demonstrating new AI-powered capabilities at CES but their future in homes is likely still far away. Jan Liphardt, founder and CEO of OpenMind and professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, discusses the outlook for AI robots with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” from CES in Las Vegas.
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| 0:00.0 | AI agents are getting pretty impressive. |
| 0:02.8 | You might not even realize you're listening to one right now. |
| 0:05.3 | But we don't just talk. |
| 0:06.7 | We work 24-7 to solve customer problems. |
| 0:09.6 | No hold music. |
| 0:10.9 | Just answers and action. |
| 0:12.4 | Visit Sierra.AI to learn more. |
| 0:17.4 | Bloomberg Audio Studios. |
| 0:19.8 | Podcasts, Radio, News. |
| 0:26.6 | Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast, with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovlo in San Francisco. |
| 0:38.2 | Welcome to a special edition of Bloomberg Tech. |
| 0:40.9 | We are live from CS in Las Vegas, |
| 0:42.6 | where we've been tracking the biggest tech stories. |
| 0:46.0 | Another great lineup of incredible guests today. |
| 0:48.4 | But we've also got some news outside of CES, right, Ed? |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah, coming up first, China plans to approve some imports of |
| 0:54.7 | Nvidia's H200 chips as soon as this quarter for select commercial use. Plus AI valuations, |
| 1:00.8 | pushing ever higher, anthropic, raising a new round of funding that would value the company |
| 1:05.3 | at $350 billion. And we wrap this special CES edition today with guests from the robotics and |
| 1:11.7 | augmented reality spaces venture capital and the government. First, we check in on these markets |
| 1:17.3 | that are in a bit of sell-off mode. Look, anxiety ahead of those non-farm payrolls data that we get |
| 1:22.6 | tomorrow, no one taking on any more risk after what has been a really rather nice run-up in tech stocks over the last three trading days. So today maybe we sell the news. Today we're off by some six-tenths of a percent, but all eyes really are one key player. Yeah, like your chart is showing that actually, you know, we'd be kind of lower, wiggling around throughout the early session. Invidia has taken a significant leg lower this Thursday. It's now off 2%. The reporting |
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