LAS VEGAS — This week, 2.5 million square feet of prime Las Vegas real estate is packed with visions of the future. That’s business as usual at CES, the massive tech confab once known as the Consumer Electronics Show, which opens today. Uber’s new robotaxi Return to menuThe ride-booking giant’s road to robotaxis has been a complicated one: An early Uber self-driving test vehicle killed a pedestrian in 2018. Scanning one’s pee is par for the course at CES, though: Stand-alone liquid waste sensors have been floating around the show for years. A company called Pinwheel wants kids of the smartphone era to know what that feels like — without getting distracted by a screen.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 06, 2026 20:31 UTC