Robots and AI dominate on first day of Las Vegas tech show

Lego chief product and marketing officer and executive vice president Julia Goldin talks as a a Chewbacca stands behind her (Abbie Parr/AP)

Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huang’s little robot buddies.

CES is a huge opportunity annually for technology companies to parade products they plan to put on shelves this year.