From January 7th to 11th, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an international trade fair for electronics, robotics, and mobility, was held in Las Vegas. Artificial intelligence software took center stage, now integrated even into the most basic household appliances and serving as the foundation for innovations in the agricultural sector.
As expected, Ces 2025 in Las Vegas, held from January 7th to 11th, was literally dominated by artificial intelligence programs. This technology has even been introduced into the most basic household appliances, transforming them into reliable and efficient home robots with well-defined functionalities. One example is the “Signature” series refrigerators by LG. In addition to recognizing foods and automatically recording their expiration dates to alert users when they are approaching, these refrigerators can also suggest the most suitable recipes for the available products, refining these suggestions based on user preferences as indicated by their past purchases.
Ces 2025: The future is now
Moreover, there were other decidedly futuristic proposals, such as the “RoboRock Saros Z70,” a robot equipped with an “OmniGrip” arm capable of roaming through homes, offices, workshops, or factories to collect small objects from the floor, allowing other robots to proceed with cleaning. Also on display were salting spoons that simulate a salty taste with micro electrical impulses to help humans avoid salt intake, cradles that continuously monitor vital signs of infants, mirrors that, while serving their primary function, also remotely monitor the health of those standing before them with biometric analyses, and toasters that can not only toast bread but also charge household smartphones with 2,500 mAh energy bursts at a time.
Originally launched as a show dedicated to consumer electronics and tech gadgets, CES 2025 did not betray this identity, but it also featured decidedly more professional proposals aimed at entering the fields of medicine, mobility, and even agriculture, with the latter explored in the following pages.
Four thousand exhibitors: 46 italian startups
Common to all the solutions presented by the over four thousand exhibitors at the fair — 46 of which were Italian startups — was a drive for automation that surpasses current standards of living and working, suggesting a future that is increasingly robotized and, as such, less open to direct human control. While many of the solutions showcased in Las Vegas might remain mere prototypes or concepts, it is equally true that the main trends — sustainability, AI, ultra-fast connections, smart health devices, and autonomous mobility — are likely to become true market standards.
AI and robot
In simpler terms, this means that large segments of the population are on the path to becoming mere “passive spectators” of the activities performed by machines, a position that can only be avoided by the most skilled technicians or those engaged in tasks that cannot be delegated to robots. However, such tasks will become increasingly rare, raising a fundamental question for which there is currently no answer: if robots replace current human jobs, who will sustain the nine billion potential unemployed that the Earth will need to support by 2050?
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