Gary Shapiro, I am the CEO and the executive chairman of the Consumer Technology Association.

So Gary, thank you for talking with us. Everybody looks to CES every year for the trends

in technology. What do you consider to be some of the sleeper trends this year?

The sleeper trends, well, that's a tough question.

Yeah, because everybody's going to say AI.

What about not AI?

Well, certainly there's a focus on things we haven't focused on before.

For example, robotics is clearly here in a bigger way than it ever has been, with all sorts of different

types of robots, from humanoid to specific task robots, to even, you know, we were all

familiar with industrial robots, obviously. Agriculture technology is here in a way. Also, technology which will expand your lifespan, health care, all

specifically monitoring and sensing devices, powered, of course, by artificial intelligence,

but it's real. And mobility, of course, it's always very big. But here there's different forms

of it, whether it's on water, in the air, in agriculture,

if you're driving around, Caterpillar or CEO, for example, is one of our featured keynote speakers.

So we have a whole range of things that are here.

And one of the other areas that's really interesting is accessibility technology.

That's a new thing.

We have a special stage for it.

And you'll see a lot there of technology

meeting the community of people with disabilities, which is very empowering because it's a two-way

dialogue. The company's here, here from disability advocates, and they realize they have technology

which can make a difference. Yeah, that's fantastic, because it's been a growing space that people realize is important, so it's good to see it showing up even more. It's a technology is such a great enabler in so many ways. And if you think about it, even autonomous vehicles are great for older people and people with disabilities. It's empowering. And that's why people are so excited about it in part. I wanted to get really good by the time I need it.

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