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The Vergecast

Live from CES: What is the point of a robot that falls over?

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The theme of CES 2026 is gadgets. It's always gadgets. This year more than most, though, the world's biggest tech show is about how fast the hardware world is moving — and how much work the software, and the AI, have to do to catch up. On stage live at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, David and Nilay talk through some of the biggest news of the week, from robots to laptops to AI cuddle buddies, to see what's really going to matter in tech this year. Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed.We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for the show comes from L'Oreal Group, the global beauty leader, defining the future of beauty through science and technology.

0:08.7

L'Oreal Group, create the beauty that moves the world.

0:16.3

Live from the Brooklyn Bowl at the Consumer Electronics Show in Sin City, Los Vegas, Nevada.

0:23.9

It's The Vergecast, presented by L'O Group.

0:28.5

Please welcome to the stage, your Verge editor-in-chief, Nilai Patel, and editor-at-large.

0:35.1

David Pierce.

0:45.3

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of things about the height of your ankle that run around on every surface at your house.

0:48.1

I'm your friend David Pierce.

0:49.1

Nealai Pettell is here.

0:50.2

Dogs?

0:51.9

Cat?

0:52.6

Who's to say?

0:53.4

Have you seen the AI video of the cat doing the Crip Walk Dance? Oh, what? It's all over my feeds. It might be the most important story at CES. Do you realize that almost every episode of this show at some point you ask me if I've seen an AI video of something now? That's what we do here. Anyway, we're here at CES at the Brooklyn Bowl doing this live. Thank you to everybody who's here.

1:12.1

Thank you. This is the greatest day of my life. That's it. That's the verse cast.

1:32.0

I have nothing left. So we did a show,

1:38.1

you and I, on Monday afternoon. It came out on Tuesday, going through a bunch of this sort of early announcements of the show. And since then, we've both come to Vegas. We've both gotten to be out

1:43.0

on the show floor. We've taken some meetings. We've done some stuff. I first want to know, this is your, what, 15 plus CES? 16 or 17, I want to say. It's a long time. Do you feel like you're good at it now? I have a lot of feelings about Las Vegas. Sure. See, this is a weird one.

2:01.7

This is a weird show.

2:02.4

I don't know if you had caught the same vibe.

2:05.6

Like, Samsung doesn't have a booth.

2:07.3

They have a private booth in the Venetian.

2:09.9

All of the stuff on the show floor is sadder than it was before in, like, very meaningful

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