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US – The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has landed in Las Vegas for another year of product launches, panels and keynotes from the world’s most influential tech leaders.

CES 2025 boasts more than 4,500 exhibitors, including 1,400 start-ups and 300+ sessions led by 1,100 speakers.

The event kicked off with a media preview on Sunday 5 January. In a presentation entitled Tech Trends 2025, The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) highlighted home security, longevity and smart home comforts as topics to watch in the coming year.

Led by CTA’s senior director of innovation and trends Brian Comiskey, and vice-president of marketing and communications Melissa Harrison, the talk concluded with both hosts agreeing that the two key trends that will define the next year are human-centric tech and quantum computing: ‘If the 2020s are the intelligence decade, the 2030s will be the quantum decade,’ concluded Comiskey.

On Monday 6 January, press conferences and panel discussions began across the city. In an exciting press conference, Toyota’s chairman and former CEO Akio Toyod announced that residents will soon start moving into the Woven City – an innovation hub at the foot of Mount Fuji. ‘It’s a living laboratory where the residents are willing participants… giving inventors the opportunity to freely test their ideas in a secure, real-life setting,’ explained Toyod. The Woven City was first announced at CES in 2020.

Elsewhere, robots and AI dominated exhibitions and conversations. Enchanted Tools showcased its orange care assistant robot Mirokaï, while Tombot Inc won crowds over with robo-puppy Jennie, designed to keep elderly people company.

To read more about how technology (including robots) is evolving to be more human-centric, head to The Synthocene Era macrotrend report.