CES 2025 updates: Live coverage of all the biggest tech, AI and gadget news from Las Vegas

That’s all of our winners at CES 2025, and as a reminder you can read the full details on our Best of CES 2025 announcement post. We’ve enjoyed bringing you all the news from Las Vegas this week, and are still working hard to crank out more hands-ons, features, analyses and roundups of our favorite trends and things. While this may the the final liveblog post of the week, we will continue to publish more from the show, so keep looking at Engadget.com to stay on top of it all. If people ask you what the biggest news from CES 2025 was, we have plenty of articles for you to draw from. We can’t wait to do this all over again next year (no, we can)!

It truly warms my heart to see that the Engadget team’s votes resulted in the WeWalk Smart Cane 2 taking the prize for Best in Show at CES 2025. It’s clear we agreed that this was a meaningful application of AI, and a thoughtful, well-designed product that could actually improve lives. The fact that it would still work as a conventional cane if it ran out of battery is a bonus, but an important one.

According to Cheyenne Macdonald:

“The smart cane takes an existing tool that people are already familiar with and enhances it. Importantly, it also seems like the company heard the feedback of users who had the first version of the cane and improved the design to better meet their needs. It has a slimmer handle than the first model and tactile buttons, and weighs about the same as a traditional white cane.”

Read more about why the WeWalk Smart Cane 2 is Engadget’s pick for best of the Best at CES 2025.

Everyone on the Engadget CES team wants to buy a Mirumi for themselves, and that alone should tell you how appealing this robot is. The Mirumi is a tiny, fluffy robot made by Yukai Engineering that, per our Cheyenne Macdonald, literally just stares at people and looks around like a baby discovering the outside world. It’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. It also has long arms that you can wrap around objects for it to hang off of. If you put it on your bag strap, it will stare down everyone you encounter, and better yet, it may even become a little shy when they return the attention.

Mirumi has no purpose other than to spread joy, and we all love it for that.

Read more about why the Yukai Engineering Mirumi robot earned a Best of CES 2025 award.

Of all the products at CES 2025 that had AI stuffed into them, WeWalk’s Smart Cane 2 stood out. The smart cane for people with visual impairments got an update this year that not only adds AI, but also addresses the original’s shortcomings. It brings more advanced sensors, and best of all, still works as a conventional folding cane when these technological features aren’t engaged. The Smart Cane 2 can detect obstacles and offer turn-by-turn navigation, and it has a chatGPT-powered assistant that can provide answers to questions while someone is walking, without the need to reach for a smartphone. WeWalk also refined the actual cane by making its handle slimmer, replacing the original’s touchpad with tactile buttons and shaving a bit of weight off.

Read more about why the WeWalk Smart Cane 2 is a winner of our Best of CES 2025 awards.

Of all the holographic winshield technology and in-vehicle heads up displays we saw at CES 2025, the thing that impressed us most in the transportation category is a motor for an e-bike. In fact, it’s e-bikes, not electric cars, that have been increasing rapidly in popularity since the pandemic. According to Igor Bonifacic, it’s easy to see why. They’re more affordable, and are friendlier for our environment. Urtopia’s concept e-bike with a novel motor design was exciting, as it is small enough to fit inside a bottom bracket and weighs just 2.6 pounds. In fact, the Quark DMI.1 mid-drive motor is so intriguing that Igor says “it’s easy to see a scenario where the design of the Quark DMI.2 inspires other bike makers and pushes the industry forward.”

Read more about why the Urtopia Titanium Zero is a winner of our Best of CES 2025 awards.

Sometimes the best tech is in the tiniest devices. Technics, a sub-brand of Panasonic, managed to miniaturize the Magnetic Fluid drivers from its in-ear monitors to bring truly high-quality audio to its latest earbuds.

According to our audio guru Billy Steele:

“Technics revised its earbud shape for the AZ100 in the name of comfort and fit, while also making the buds smaller and lighter. Features like touch controls, multipoint connectivity for three devices, spatial Dolby Atmos audio and LDAC support are here as well.”

Read more about why the Technics EAH-AZ100 is a winner of our Best of CES 2025 awards.

For some reason, robot vacuums with extendable arms were all the rage this year. But according to our Karissa Bell, none made a bigger impression than Roborock’s Saros Z70, which comes with a mechanical arm that can pick up socks, lift cords and grab other objects. Its OmniGrip arm can pick up objects up to 300 grams (a little more than half a pound) in order to clean under them or deposit them in the location of your choice. We saw it in action here in Las Vegas, too, and were satisfied that it performs as touted.

Karissa also added:

“The vacuum will automatically recognize 108 different objects — yes, like seemingly every other gadget we saw at CES, it uses AI — but you can also teach it to detect up to 50 additional items so it will know how to handle obstacles it’s most likely to encounter in your home.”

Read more about why the Roborock Saros Z70 is a winner of our Best of CES 2025 awards.

Gaming controllers aren’t exactly a mainstay at CES, but the MCON by OhSnap impressed us this year by delivering an accessory so good that it might impact the whole industry. It basically transforms any smartphone into a modern Xperia Play handheld gaming machine, and adds modern conveniences like Hall effect analog sticks, silent buttons, flip-out grips, and a full bumper and trigger layout.

Per Jessica Conditt:

“It’s a mobile gamepad that can slide into your pocket without the sticks or handles getting caught on anything, and it works with pretty much every smartphone on the market today. The MCON uses MagSafe to snap onto the back of any iPhone and it comes with an adapter for Android devices to join in on the fun. It even works with the Galaxy Z Fold, and its creator, Josh King, is working on a solution for the Z Flip, too.”

Read more on why the OhSnap MCON is a winner for our Best of CES 2025 awards.

If something is designed to help you relax, it shouldn’t be complicated. The Moonbird Moonbuddy is simple. It is here to to make guided breathwork accessible and appealing to children.

From Cheyenne Macdonald:

“Moonbuddy is an egg-shaped device with a soft area that expands and contracts in set rhythms, so kids can follow along and sync up their own breathing. It fits into an animal themed sleeve, so it looks like a toy. There are four different breathing modes, each lasting a few minutes and designed to promote a state of calmness.”

Read more on why Moonbuddy is a winner for Best of CES 2025.

LG nabs yet another Best of CES win, this time with its OLED evo M5 TV. The company is consistently at the top of the best TVs we see each year in Las Vegas, and this year managed to further improve its most premium displays, adding the latest α (Alpha) 11 AI processor Gen2 to improve the look of lower-resolution content and power advanced features. There’s even high refresh rates and NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium support for gamers.

Read more on why the LG OLED evo M5 is a winner for our Best of CES 2025.

Lenovo has made the first third-party handheld gaming console that runs SteamOS, finally offering gamers an alternative to Valve’s Steam Deck. The Lenovo Legion Go S is available in a Windows version and a SteamOS model, with beefy processors, ample RAM and storage as well as a bright, smooth screen. The Windows-based variant will be available this month, while SteamOS fans will have to wait till May.

Read more on why the Legion Go S is a winner for Best of CES 2025.

Jackery’s curved solar roof shingles mimic some of the most common house styles in America and come in terrocotta or obsidian colorways to please even the pickiest of HOA boards. These can withstand extreme weather conditions, feature a modular setup that allow for flexible maintenance and deliver a cell conversion efficiency of more than 25 percent, making them accessible and attractive for whole-home sustainability.

Read more on why Jackery’s Solar Roof is a Best of CES 2025 winner.

Not everything has to be a brand new concept or AI. Sometimes, an effective reinterpretation of existing tech can genuinely and meaningfully contribute to the industry and, more importantly, our lives. BioLite’s Backup battery is one such example, and its approach to combining universal power supply with a whole-home backup battery actually improves on both. According to our smart home reporter Amy Skorheim, “The thin, 40-pound 1.5 kWh battery lives between a wall outlet and your fridge (or any other plug-in device) and keeps those things running in the event of a power outage.”

Read more about why the BioLite Backup is a winner of our Best of CES 2025 awards.

First up, the ASUS Zenbook A14. According to our PC reviewer Devindra Hardawar, the ASUS Zenbook A14 feels impossibly light, weighing between 2.2 and 2.4 pounds, and it has a gorgeous 14-inch OLED screen and a decent array of ports (USB-C, USB-A and HDMI)! We liked its simplicity and unique Ceraluminum case, as well as its generous estimated battery life and overall lack of gimmicks.

More from Devindra on why the ASUS Zenbook A14 is a winner of CES 2025.

After weeks of research, days of showfloor coverage, hours of discussion and rounds of voting, the Engadget team has finalized our list of winners for Best of CES 2025. Our picks span a diverse range of categories, including sustainability and accessibility, as well as the more typical home entertainment, smart home and transportation groups. After our team shortlisted nominees and voted on the best for various categories, we conducted another round of voting to decide which of the 12 winners deserves to be the best product of the show.

Coming up: The winners of our Best of CES 2025 awards.