CES 2026: Samsung bets on AI mirrors, glass-like Micro LED and voice-built routines as LG pushes a “Zero Labor Home” robot

Las Vegas: From an AI beauty mirror that reads “invisible” skin conditions to a see-through Micro LED screen that looks like glass, Samsung used CES 2026’s stage to pitch a home where displays, sensors and voice controls quietly take over the daily admin. LG, meanwhile, brought robotics and ultra-thin OLED back into the spotlight—promising a “Zero Labor Home” with a working home robot, and reviving its Wallpaper TV concept with true wireless connectivity.Samsung’s AI Beauty Mirror is positioned as an “intelligent personal beauty platform” that analyzes even “the invisible conditions of your skin.” Built around a hybrid mirror display, sensors and on-device AI, it combines a polarized mirror and a half mirror, and uses multi-spectrum skin analysis based on RGB, UV and polarization to generate tailored skincare recommendations.In the demo, the mirror integrates AMOREPACIFIC’s research expertise to assess skin condition and recommend personalized skincare products. It also offers personal color recommendations powered by TWINIT’s AI engine, analyzing “skin tone, eyes, and lips” to create a palette aimed at more confident styling.SmartThings Pet Care: disease detection in three secondsSmartThings Pet Care adds a Pet Disease Detection feature that uses AI Vision to analyze photos for conditions including dental issues, patellar luxation and cataracts. The flow is designed to be simple: follow on-screen guidance, capture images of a dog with a mobile device, and AI Vision returns results “in just three seconds.”Samsung says the system draws on a database of more than 10,000 cases, delivering data-driven insights along with results on potential abnormalities and related care or treatment information. A separate description of the service says it was trained on “over 30,000 cases” to help spot issues early by photographing a specific body part.Transparent Micro LED: a glass-like screen without size limitsSamsung’s Transparent Micro LED pitch leaned on flexibility and aesthetics: “design flexibility without size constraints,” a “true glass-like appearance,” high transparency and “outstanding image clarity.” The company says it reaches high brightness without a rear light-blocking structure—framing it as a step beyond conventional transparent displays.Samsung also claims higher maximum brightness than traditional transparent OLEDs for clearer viewing, while positioning the panel as a new kind of display that can adapt across user environments and expand to home use. In its First Look messaging, Samsung highlighted “Transmittance” and “Clarity,” saying Micro LED brightness increases light transmission by creating larger open areas on each pixel, and that it offers “twice the clarity of OLED.”Samsung Art Store: turning TVs into rotating galleriesSamsung’s Art Store proposition is straightforward: transform an “Art TV” into a décor centerpiece with “thousands of curated artworks” from leading museums, galleries and artists—spanning classics, modern masters and contemporary icons. The list namechecks Belvedere, Liberty, Musée d’Orsay, MFA Boston, Tate, The Met, Centre Pompidou, MoMA, VOGUE and marimekko.The service is framed as available across The Frame, QLED, Micro RGB and OLED—positioned as a single library that extends Samsung’s “living with art” story beyond one product line and across premium panels.The Frame Pro: wireless installation, Neo QLED, glare controlSamsung’s The Frame Pro focus is on cleaner installation and “gallery-like” picture tuning. The headline feature is “Wireless One Connect,” which Samsung says enables flexible installation and a cleaner setup using Wi-Fi 7 and Samsung’s high compression codec.On picture quality, the company touts “Artful picture quality with Neo QLED” for a gallery-like viewing experience, and “Sharper detail with glare free,” describing enhanced reflection control and clarity to make art and imagery sit more naturally in bright rooms.Samsung home security: Now Brief summaries and voice-built Away ModeSamsung says its AI features can monitor and manage home security while users are away, analyzing video and audio from connected home devices and providing a briefing of events via the Now Brief screen on mobile devices, TVs and refrigerators.Vision AI, Samsung adds, summarizes and notifies key events from security cameras—such as unfamiliar visitor activity or package deliveries. For longer absences, users can create an Away Mode by voice command, including: ‘Make it look like someone is home’. Samsung says an LLM analyzes the request and suggests routines to mimic an occupied home.LG CLOiD home robot: “Zero Labor Home” goes hands-onLG Electronics says it will publicly demonstrate LG CLOiD™, an AI-enabled home robot, at CES 2026 as part of its “Zero Labor Home” vision. CLOiD is designed to perform and coordinate household tasks across connected appliances, integrating with LG’s ThinQ ecosystem and building on the Self-Driving AI Home Hub (LG Q9).LG’s demo scenarios include the robot retrieving milk from a refrigerator, placing a croissant into an oven, initiating laundry cycles after occupants leave, and folding and stacking garments after drying. LG describes a head, torso with two articulated arms and a wheeled base, with seven degrees of freedom per arm and five independently actuated fingers for fine manipulation.LG frames CLOiD’s core intelligence as “Physical AI,” combining a Vision Language Model (VLM) that converts images/video into structured language-based understanding, and Vision Language Action (VLA) that translates visual and verbal inputs into physical actions.LG says these models were trained on “tens of thousands of hours” of household task data to recognize appliances, interpret user intent and execute actions such as opening doors or transferring objectsLG Home Appliance Solution Company president Steve Baek said: “The LG CLOiD home robot is designed to naturally engage with and understand the humans it serves, providing an optimized level of household help.”LG OLED evo W6: the Wallpaper TV returns—now “True Wireless”LG’s 2026 OLED lineup is headlined by the LG OLED evo W6, True Wireless Wallpaper TV, reviving the Wallpaper Design first introduced in 2017. LG says the W6 has a “nine-millimeter-class thin body,” achieved through component miniaturization and a re-engineered internal architecture, paired with an improved wall mount so the TV sits flush “from edge to edge.”Connectivity shifts to a Zero Connect Box—placing inputs up to 10 meters away—supporting what LG calls “visually lossless” 4K video and audio wirelessly. LG positions it as the “world’s thinnest True Wireless OLED TV,” pairing form-factor minimalism with flagship picture ambitions.