CES 2026 spotlights battery-free smart locks, generative AI on Google TV and smarter vacuums

At CES 2026, companies highlighted smarter, more autonomous smart-home devices, including battery-free smart locks, new generative-AI features for Google TV, and an AI-enabled robot vacuum and mop. Lockin showed the Veno Pro deadbolt and the V7 Max Mortise lock, both designed to avoid removable batteries by using Lockin AuraCharge — an external transmitter you plug in about four meters away that continuously powers the lock by shooting an invisible light beam.

The Veno Pro is expected to hit the market this year with a retail price of around $350, while the V7 Max, which has dual cameras and displays to show who is at the door, is planned for Q3 2026 and is expected to cost upward of $1,000. Google demonstrated new generative-AI features for Google TV, including Dive Deeper, a Nano Banana model and Veo.

Those features will arrive as a free over-the-air update to TCL Google TVs initially and will also be available on the Google TV Streamer. Google showed the TV editing photos and creating artwork and videos from them, and said Gemini will generate briefs for sports with a new visual layout and a narrator with a sportscaster voice.

Narwal unveiled the Flow 2 robot vacuum and mop, which the company says offers 30,000Pa of suction and a track mop that can apply 12N of downward pressure.

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