At CES, robotics delivers AI into every corner of our lives

As the robot revolution accelerates, one of the biggest stories from this week’s CES consumer electronics show is that robotics has gone mainstream. Just as important, artificial intelligence has become a fundamental differentiator in mass-market robotics of every type.
As developers get their arms around AI-infused robotics, they’ll find themselves herding a rapidly evolving menagerie of intelligent mechanisms such as those on display at CES 2019. As I noted recently, smart objects of every type are beginning to enter developers physical workspaces. We can expect to see more data scientists who are working on these projects acquire smart sensors, smart cameras, smart drones, self-driving vehicles and other hardware platforms for development and training of the AI that powers more sophisticated robotics initiatives.