Las Vegas: The contrast between CES 2025 and CES 2026 is stark. While CES 2025 focused on proving the possibilities of artificial intelligence, extended reality, and robotics, CES 2026 emphasized execution, deployment, and monetization.

In 2025, exhibitors leaned heavily on generative AI demonstrations, early XR experiences, and conceptual robotics. The emphasis was on imagination and future potential. Investors explored broadly, and startups focused on visibility rather than revenue.

By 2026, the tone had changed. Autonomous AI agents replaced copilots. XR moved from entertainment to enterprise training, broadcasting, and commerce. Robotics appeared not as prototypes but as deployed systems in logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing.

Most notably, CES 2026 reflected a market correction. Investors were selective, enterprises demanded ROI, and partnerships outweighed publicity. Companies that could demonstrate real customers, operating margins, and scalability dominated the conversation.

CES 2026 did not feel louder — it felt more serious.

The implication is clear: the era of experimentation has ended. The era of commercialization has begun.

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Rajni’s husband and sole breadwinner of the house died around two months back. She is now looking after her 8-year-old daughter and in-laws.

She is a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree holder, however, unable to get any job, she decided to run her food business but due to paucity of funds, she chooses to sell ‘Rajma Chawal’ on a stall.

“After my husband’s death, there is no one to feed our family as my elderly father-in-law is also unable to work due to health issues. Following this, I decided to work to earn some money despite being pregnant,” said Rajni.

She appealed to local NGOs and social workers to extend a helping hand to her family in this grieving time.

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This 34-year-old Indian-American Sikh Dr Harmandeep Singh Boparai, a specialist in anesthesiology and critical care was working as a frontline worker in the US prior to travelling to India. He has been living in the US for the past 10 years and currently treating Covid patients in his home town Amritsar.

Dr Singh did his MBBS in Amritsar Government Medical College before moving to New York in 2011. Later, he has done his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in the City of New York.

On his return to Punjab, during the second wave in April this year, he started giving training to doctors and nurses at many hospitals including Dukh Niwaran Hospital in Amritsar. He has also extended his services at a 1,000-bed hospital in Mumbai, where he was roped in by Doctors without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organisation.

“At time of my return, the cases were not that high and I started talking to the doctors here on how we can build capacity in case of cases surge, apart from strengthening the infrastructure to handle any kind of crisis. Soon enough, we saw a catastrophic rises in the cases in India,” he said.

He is also imparting training to many doctors and nurses in the holy city and at other places at par with the modalities being used in New York hospitals.

Talking about his motivation to return to India, he said his father, RPS Boparai, is an orthopaedic specialist, while his mother, late Gian Kaur, was a gynaecologist and they always committed to providing selfless service to the sick and saving lives unconditionally throughout their lives. While his father offered charitable services at Dukh Niwaran Hospital mother initiated him into ‘sewa’ (volunteer service) at his young age, he said.

Harman says he would continue extending his help to all those in need until the situation becomes normal in India.  “Considering the circumstances of imminent Covid-19 third wave, I will be staying here till this year to extend his services and treat the people,” he said answering on his return to the US.

Sharing his views on India’s Covid situation, he said, “Though, we do not have similar advanced facilities like the US and other advanced countries but our people have a strong will-power to combat any crisis and it is helping us. Moreover, Doctors in the health department, especially in Punjab, have been working so hard to save lives even this is not an easy job at this time.”

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Ingredients

1 cup Quinoa

1 cups boiled chickpeas

½ diced cucumber

½ medium diced onion

¼ diced red bell pepper

¼ diced orange bell pepper

¼ diced yellow bell pepper

2 Medium diced tomatoes (or 1 cup sliced cherry tomatoes)

¼ cup chopped walnuts

Salt to taste

½ tsp freshly ground black pepper

1 freshly squeezed lemon juice (May add more lemon for a burst of flavor)

Directions

Rinse and boil Quinoa to keep aside for cooling.

In a large bowl, mix all of the ingredients into cooled quinoa.

Keep in fridge for about 1 hour and serve cold.

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(Reuters) – Apple Inc reported its first quarterly increase in iPhone sales in a year, powered by strong demand for the latest version of its flagship smartphone, sending the company’s shares up more than 3 percent in after-hours trading.

Apple sold 78.29 million iPhones in the first quarter ended Dec. 31, up from 74.78 million last year. Analysts on average had estimated 77.42 million, according to research firm FactSet StreetAccount.

The results, which reflected the first full quarter of iPhone 7 sales, come at a time when global demand for smartphones is slowing and cheaper Android alternatives are flooding the market.

The company is heavily dependent on the success of iPhones, which account for more than three-quarters of its total revenue.

Analysts and investors have already set their sights on Apple’s 10th-anniversary iPhone, which is expected to feature better touchscreen technology, wireless charging and a shift to OLED display.

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said demand was especially high for the larger iPhone 7 Plus in the first quarter.

Revenue in the services business – which includes the App Store, Apple Pay and iCloud – jumped 18.4 percent to $7.17 billion, helped by the popularity of games, including Pokemon Go and Super Mario Run, and increased revenue from subscriptions.

Analysts expect growth in the segment to help offset declining hardware sales as the smart phone market matures.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on a conference call on Tuesday that he expects services revenue to double in the next four years.

“Services obviously continues to be a real success story for them. It’s one of the fastest-growing segments they have, driven largely by the App Store,” said Jackdaw Research analyst Jan Dawson.

Apple’s revenue from the Greater China region fell 11.6 percent to $16.23 billion.

“We were encouraged by our performance in China because it was clearly an improvement over the last couple of quarters. In mainland China in particular, our revenue was flat and actually grew in constant currency terms,” Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri said.

The company also forecast revenue of between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion for the current quarter. Analysts, on average, had expected revenue of $53.79 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Maestri added that a stronger dollar hurt the company’s revenue forecast.

Analysts on average expect the company to sell 53.43 million iPhones in the current quarter, according to FactSet.

The company’s net income fell to $17.89 billion in the quarter from $18.36 billion a year ago. On a per share basis, it earned $3.36, beating the average analyst estimate of $3.12.

Revenue rose 3.3 percent to $78.35 billion in the quarter, compared with the average estimate of $77.25 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Up to Tuesday’s close, Apple’s shares have gained 14.7 percent since mid-November, compared with the 5.3 percent rise in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

(Reporting by Narottam Medhora in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk.

Brazil’s interim President Michel Temer declared open the first Games ever in South America. But in a display of the deep political divisions plaguing Brazil, he was jeered by some in the crowd at the famed Maracana soccer stadium.

The opening ceremony was decidedly simple and low-tech, a  reflection of Brazil’s tough economic times. In one of the world’s most unequal societies, the spectacle celebrated the culture of the favelas, the slums that hang vertiginously above the renowned beaches of Rio and ring the Maracana.

There was no glossing over history either: from the arrival of the Portuguese and their conquest of the indigenous populations to the use of African slave labor for 400 years. The clash of cultures, as the ceremony showed, is what makes Brazil the complex mosaic that it is.

Home to the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, Brazil used the ceremony to call on the 3 billion people watching the opening of the world’s premiere sporting event to take care of the planet, plant seeds and protect the verdant land that Europeans found here five centuries ago.

Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima, a bronze medalist in Athens in 2004, lit the Olympic cauldron, a small and low-emission model befitting the environmental theme of these Games.

THE ‘ANALOG’ SHOW

Unlike the opening ceremonies in Beijing in 2008 and London  in 2012, a financially constrained Brazil had little choice but to put on a more “analog” show, with minimal high-tech and a heavy dependence on the vast talent of Brazil and its Carnival party traditions. In the nearly four-hour event, nothing appeared to go awry.

While the Rio 2016 organizing committee has not said how much the ceremony cost, it is believed to be about half of the $42 million spent by London in 2012.

The show drew homegrown stars, like supermodel Gisele Bundchen, who walked across the stadium to the sound of bossa nova hit “Girl from Ipanema” and tropicalia legends Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Everyone performed for free.

Loud cheering erupted when two of the last teams entered the stadium: the first Refugee team in Olympic history and finally a samba-dancing Brazil contingent.

The joyful opening contrasted with months of turmoil and chaos, not only in the organization of the Olympics but across Brazil as it endures its worst economic recession in decades and a deep political crisis.

Temer, flanked by dozens of heads of state, played a minor role in the ceremony, speaking just a few words. The leader who was supposed to preside over the Games, President Dilma Rousseff, was suspended last May to face an impeachment trial and tweeted that she was “sad to not be at the party.”

The $12 billion price tag to organize the Games has aggrieved many in the nation of 200 million and in Rio, where few can see the benefits of the spectacle or even afford to attend the Games.

Due to Brazil’s most intense security operation ever, some among the 50,000 attendees faced two-hour-long lines as Brazil staged its most intense security operation ever.

PEOPLE ON THE PERIPHERY

The creative minds behind the opening ceremony were determined to put on a show that would not offend a country in dire economic straits but would showcase the famously upbeat nature of Brazilians.

It started with the beginning of life itself in Brazil, and the population that formed in the vast forests and built their communal huts, the ocas.

The Portuguese bobbed to shore in boats, the African slaves rolled in on wheels and together they plowed through the forests and planted the seeds of modern Brazil.

“They’re talking about slavery? Wow,” said Bryan Hossy, a black Brazilian who watched the ceremony in a bar in Copacabana. “They have to talk about that. It’s our story.”

The mega-cities of Brazil formed in a dizzying video display as acrobats jumped from roof to roof of emerging buildings and then on to the steep favela that served as the front stage for the ceremony.

From the favela came Brazilian funk, a contemporary mash-up of 20th century rhythms, sung by stars Karol Conka and 12-year-old rapper MC Soffia.

“This is a conquest. The people on the periphery are having an influence, it’s a recognition of their art,” said Eduardo Alves, director of social watchdog Observatorio de Favelas.

Before the entry of a few thousand of the 11,000 athletes that will be competing in the Games, the playful rhythms of the ceremony gave way to a sober message about climate change and rampant deforestation of the Amazon.

Each athlete will be asked to plant seeds that will eventually grow into trees and be planted in Rio in a few years.

The party wrapped up with a rousing parade of the city’s samba schools that compete in Carnival. Hundreds of drummers donned their colors and played out Brazil’s trademark beat, as athletes from over 200 countries tried out their first steps of samba.

(Additional reporting by Brad Haynes, Pedro Fonseca, Jeb Blount and Stephen Eisenhammer; Editing by Mark Bendeich and Andrew Hay)

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Even though many doctors see need for improvement, surgical robots are poised for big gains in operating rooms around the world.

Within five years, one in three U.S. surgeries – more than double current levels – is expected to be performed with robotic systems, with surgeons sitting at computer consoles guiding mechanical arms. Companies developing new robots also plan to expand their use in India, China and other emerging markets.

Robotic surgery has been long dominated by pioneer Intuitive Surgical Inc, which has more than 3,600 of its da Vinci machines in hospitals worldwide and said last week the number of procedures that used them jumped by 16 percent in the second quarter compared to a year earlier.

The anticipated future growth – and perceived weaknesses of the current generation of robots – is attracting deep-pocketed rivals, including Medtronic Inc and a startup backed by Johnson & Johnson and Google. Developers of the next wave aim to make the robots less expensive, more nimble and capable of performing more types of procedures, company executives and surgeons told Reuters.

Although surgical robots run an average of $1.5 million and entail ongoing maintenance expenses, insurers pay no more for surgeries that utilize the systems than for other types of minimally-invasive procedures, such as laparoscopy.

Still, most top U.S. hospitals for cancer treatment, urology, gynecology and gastroenterology have made the investment. The robots are featured prominently in hospital marketing campaigns aimed at attracting patients, and new doctors are routinely trained in their use.

Surgical robots are used in hernia repair, bariatric surgery, hysterectomies and the vast majority of prostate removals in the United States, according to Intuitive Surgical data.

Doctors say they reduce fatigue and give them greater precision.

But robot-assisted surgery can take more of the surgeon’s time than traditional procedures, reducing the number of operations doctors can perform. That’s turned off some like Dr. Helmuth Billy.

Billy was an early adopter of Intuitive’s da Vinci system 15 years ago. But equipping its arms with instruments slowed him down. He rarely uses it now.

“I like to do five operations a day,” Billy said. “If I have to constantly dock and undock da Vinci, it becomes cumbersome.”

SURGEONS’ WISH LIST

To gain an edge, new robots will need to outperform laparoscopic surgery, said Dr. Dmitry Oleynikov, who heads a robotics task force for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.

Surgeons told Reuters they want robots to provide a way to feel the body’s tissue remotely, called haptic sensing, and better camera image quality.

New systems also will need to be priced low enough to entice hospitals and outpatient surgical centers that have not yet invested in a da Vinci, as well as convince those with established robotic programs to consider a second vendor or switching suppliers altogether.

“That is where competitors can differentiate,” said Vik Srinivasan of the Advisory Board Co, a research and consulting firm that advises hospitals.

Developers say they are paying attention. Verb Surgical, the J&J-Google venture that is investing about $250 million in its project, said creating a faster and easier-to-use system is a priority.

Verb also envisions a system that is “always there, always on,” enabling the surgeon to use the robot for parts of a procedure as needed, said Chief Executive Scott Huennekens.

Intuitive said it too is looking to improve technology at a reasonable cost, but newcomers will face the same challenges.

“As competitors come in, they are going to have to work within that same framework,” CEO Gary Guthart said in an interview.

Device maker Medtronic has said it expects to launch its surgical robot before mid-2018 and will start in India. Others developing surgical robots include TransEnterix Inc and Canada’s Titan Medical Inc.

An RBC Capital Markets survey found that U.S. surgeons expect about 35 percent of operations will involve robots in five years, up from 15 percent today.

J&J, which hopes to be second to market with a product from Verb, has said it sees robotics as a multibillion-dollar market opportunity. Huennekens said Verb’s surgical robot will differ from another Google robotics effort, the driverless car, in one important aspect.

“There will always be a surgeon there,” he said.

(Reporting by Susan Kelly; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Lisa Girion)

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