Live from CES: What is the point of a robot that falls over?

Support for the show comes from L'Oreal Group, the global beauty leader, defining the future of beauty through science and technology. L'Oreal Group, create the beauty that moves the world. Live from the Brooklyn Bowl at the Consumer Electronics Show in Sin City, Las Vegas, Nevada. It's the Vergecast presented by L'Oreal Group. Please welcome to the stage your Verge editor in chief, Nilay Patel, and editor at large, Davis Pierce. Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of things about the height of your ankle that run around on every surface of your house. I'm your friend David Pierce. Neil O'Pseil is here. Dogs? Is cats? Who's to say? Have you seen the AI video of the cat doing the crip walk dance? Oh, what? It's all over my feeds. It might be the most important story at CES. Do you realize that almost every episode of this show, at some point, you ask me if I've seen an AI video of something now? This is all we do here. Anyway, we're here at CES at the Brooklyn Bowl doing this live. Thank you to everybody who's here. Yeah. Very good. This is the greatest day of my life. That's it. That's the first cast. Pretty good. I have nothing left. So we we did a show, you and I, on Monday afternoon. Yeah. We it came out on Tuesday, going through a bunch of this sort of early announcements of the show. And since then, we've both come to Vegas. We've We've both gotten to be out on the show floor. We've taken some meetings. We've done some stuff. I first wanna know this is your, what, 15 plus CEOs? 16 or 17, I wanna say. It's a long time. Do you feel like you're good at it now? I have a lot of feelings about Las Vegas. Sure. See, this is a weird one. This is a weird show. I don't know if you had caught the same vibe. Like, Samsung doesn't have a booth. They have a private booth in the Venetian. Mhmm. All all of the stuff on the show floor is sadder than it was before, in, like, very meaningful ways. And then we're gonna talk about just the enormous amount of components you can buy on the show floor. Like, just acres of lenses and actuators as far as the eye can see. And it's very much the consumer electronics of the show are not happening at the show. They're happening in meeting booths and hotel rooms and all that sort of stuff. It's just a very different vibe than it's ever been. I remain convinced Las Vegas is the only city in the world where you can just walk out of a building and say, I would like to be in the largest limo you can find me. And someone will be like, yeah. I can do that for you. And that is truly, I think, America's major contribution to the world. …