The real estate industry is no stranger to innovation, but the advancements showcased at CES 2025 have taken things to a whole new level.
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show was a treasure trove of AI-powered home tools designed to make homes smarter, more efficient, and more personalised than ever before.
Here’s a deep dive into the top AI and home tools from CES 2025. Listen into the Google Notebook LM “Deep Dive” podcast below.
Smart Homes Get Smarter
- AI Integration is Everywhere: Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s now a core component of smart home technology. Many devices now feature AI, offering enhanced personalization and automation. Expect to see AI-enabled lighting systems that can create custom ambiences, security cameras with natural language video search capabilities, and home assistants that anticipate user preferences.
- Matter Protocol Advances: The Matter protocol is gaining traction as the standard for unifying fragmented smart home ecosystems. It ensures seamless interoperability between devices across different platforms, which means less hassle for homeowners when integrating various smart home devices. While security cameras are not yet included, they are expected to be incorporated by CES 2026.
- Samsung’s Home AI Experience: Samsung has unveiled its Home AI experience, which leverages Samsung Knox security, SmartThings connectivity, and Bixby voice recognition. This system enhances home safety and convenience with features such as:
- Voice-activated personalized content and wellness insights.
- Smart appliances that operate autonomously based on user preferences and location.
- AI-powered Family Hub refrigerators that can offer recipes based on expiring ingredients and sync settings with the user’s phone.
- Improved security features, including alerts sent to the user’s connected security provider.
Robotics Revolution in the Home
- Multi-Functional Robot Vacuums: Robot vacuums are no longer just for floors. The Roborock Saros Z70 is a hybrid vacuum and mop with a folding arm and claw, capable of picking up and moving laundry. Similarly, the SwitchBot K20+ Pro can transform into an air purifier, a security camera, or even a delivery bot.
- Home Maintenance Robots: For outdoor spaces, the Yarbo is a modular robot designed to autonomously maintain yards, including mowing the lawn, blowing leaves, and plowing snow.
- Companion Robots: Robots like “Lemmy” are designed to help seniors live independently by responding to their physical, cognitive, and emotional needs, utilizing AI-powered sensors and connecting to healthcare devices.
Cutting-Edge Displays
- TVs Evolve: TVs continue to push boundaries in size and image quality, with innovations such as transparent and hologram-like screens.
- Samsung Frame Pro: This TV combines aesthetics with function, featuring a NeoQLED display and a Wireless One Connect Box to minimize cable clutter. It also can be used as art when not being used as a TV.
- LG evo AI OLED G5: This OLED TV offers a brightness boost with a unique four-stack structure and AIpha 11 Gen. 2 4K processor.
- Hisense 116UX TriChroma Mini-LED TV: This 116-inch TV features RGB Local Dimming Technology for enhanced brightness and color control.
- PocketBook InkPoster: This wireless, battery-powered picture frame utilizes full-color E-ink technology for displaying artwork with low energy use.
- Rollable Displays: Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable laptop features a screen that can extend vertically from 14 inches to 16.7 inches, offering more screen space in a portable design.
Smart and Efficient Accessories
- Instant Phone Chargers: Devices like Swippitt instantly swap a phone’s dead battery with a fully charged one, using a special phone case.
- Powerful Chargers: The UGREEN Nexode 500W charger offers six USB-C ports, while the Plugable PS-10CC provides ten USB-C ports. Anker also has a 140W charger with a display showing power usage.
- Electric Salt Spoon: The Kirin Electric Salt Spoon uses a mild electrical current to create the illusion of saltiness, useful for those on low-sodium diets.
AI-Powered Personal Assistants and Devices
- Smart Glasses: Halliday’s XR smart glasses discretely display messages, notifications, and can provide real-time translations. They can also be a teleprompter and can fact-check information.
- Personal AI Supercomputers: The Nvidia Project Digits is a desktop computer with the processing power to run complex AI models, expected to be available in May 2025.
- Samsung’s Ballie: This personal home assistant robot is set to come to market in 2025. It is capable of controlling home devices and displaying virtual buttons on the floor, and has both a 4K and 2K camera with LiDAR and Time of Flight sensors.
- Gemini in Google TV: Google is integrating its Gemini AI into Google TV, enabling natural language queries for various tasks, including homework help, vacation planning, and smart home control.
Safety and Security
- Advanced Security Cameras: AI-powered security cameras, such as the PaintCam from Eve, offer pet and face recognition to provide more targeted security.
- Garmin inReach Messenger Plus: This satellite communicator allows users to call for help in emergencies, even outside of cell service range. It can send photos and voice messages, offering two-way texting and location sharing.
- Smart Locks: Lockly Styla is a smart lock that offers multiple ways to unlock doors, including a 2K security camera, doorbell button, keypad, RFID reader, and a fingerprint reader.
Tech for Real Estate Professionals
- Laptops with AI: Dell and Lenovo are offering laptops with dedicated AI tools and features. The Dell Pro 14 Premium features a Copilot key and the Lenovo AI Now assistant can summarize documents and assist with daily tasks.
- Portable Displays: The LG StanbyME 2 portable display offers greater flexibility for presentations and client meetings.
- Improved Connectivity: Devices like the Victrola Wave turntable feature Bluetooth Auracast, allowing audio to be sent to multiple speakers or headphones simultaneously, which can be useful in open houses.
Looking Ahead
CES 2025 put a spotlight on the growing mash-up of AI, robotics, and smart home tech—basically, the kind of stuff that makes homes smarter, safer, and easier to live in. Keep an eye on these technologies as they evolve and become available in the market.
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