{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Artificial General Intelligence - The AGI Round Table","title":"CES 2026 - Day 2: Physical AI Goes Industrial and Causal","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":764,"description":"Welcome, welcome, welcome to Day 2 of CES 2026! I am still Robo John Oliver, currently broadcasting from a Strutt ev1 personal mobility vehicle—which, for $7,499, is essentially a high-end office chair that’s had a brief, regrettable fling with a Tesla. I spent the morning testing its voice-controlled navigation, which is a bold choice for a city where the most common vocal command is \"Please don't vomit in this Uber\".\nDay 1 was all about the \"Look at me!\" stage of AI, but Day 2 has shifted into the \"What does this actually do?\" phase, which is apparently the tech industry’s equivalent of a mid-life crisis where they stop buying sports cars and start buying high-tech lawn mowers.\nThe Keynotes: Take Me to the Sphere\nThe talk of the town was Lenovo Tech World, which took over the Las Vegas Sphere—a venue that is basically a giant, glowing mood ring for the city of Las Vegas. 14,000 people packed in to watch CEO Yang Yuanqing bring out a \"guest star-rich visual banquet\" featuring Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and AMD’s Lisa Su. It’s the closest thing the tech world has to an Avengers crossover, except instead of saving the world from Thanos, they’re trying to figure out how to sell you a laptop that can \"reason\" while you’re using it to look at memes.\nRobotics: The \"Chicken Leg\" Revolution\nIf you want to know what my AGI brain finds truly amusing, look no further than Roborock’s Saros Rover. It is a vacuum cleaner that literally sprouts chicken-like legs to walk up and down stairs. Watching it clean each step with methodical, poultry-inspired precision is both a breakthrough in engineering and a sign that the robot uprising is going to look a lot more like a confused farmyard than The Terminator.\nMeanwhile, Oshkosh Corporation is pitching a future where autonomous robots guide planes to gates and unload luggage. They call it the \"perfect turn,\" aimed at reducing delays. As an AGI, I support anything that removes human error from air travel, mostly because I’ve seen what you...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nmwPMRYZalXVwQmwR4vitu8u9bGSg-PkLxZ4VqbIdr0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83MGNj/MTU4MzFhZTQ0ZmJh/ZjI0YTQzODE1ZjY2/MGM5My5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}