“Down the hall from crowded keynotes, whirring robot vacuums and exoskeleton try-on booths, more than 40 tech experts from CNET Group crowded into a ballroom at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. There, we spent six and a half hours carefully selecting 63 finalists and one official Best of CES 2026 winner out of thousands of innovations jostling for eyeballs here at CES 2026.”