Xampla makes plastic alternatives from plants. It creates a solution from proteins found in peas, which is spread onto paper or card to prevent water and oil soaking through. The company, which chose Cambridge Science Park as its base five years ago, has just landed a contract to line takeaway boxes for Just Eat.

Chip technology company Arm Holdings has reorganized the company to create a Physical AI unit to expand its presence in the robotics market, company executives told Reuters at CES, where robots are a theme of the year.

"What has now changed," Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak told Fortune, "is that these models or these robots can now can learn from data."

CES 2026 reveals how physical AI, longevity tech, and blockchain are converging into something bigger: the Human Operating System. Keynotes by Siemens, Nvidia, and AMD

Robots at CES 2026 are smarter, more helpful and more fun. Here are our favorites so far.

Factory robots will soon be tackling complex, dynamic and dexterous tasks previously unattainable with traditional automation.

Nvidia unveiled a full-stack robotics ecosystem at CES 2026, including foundation models, simulation tools, and hardware. It wants to be the default platform for robotics.

Sometimes, AI just wants to be your friend. And while robot pets weren’t the biggest stars of CES 2026, they’ve become more than just noise and are signaling how AI is apparently leaving our screens and taking on a physical presence in our lives.

There is no question that 2026 is already set up to be something of a continuance of 2025, at least in the sense of moving deeper into the world of AI, automation, and robotics. As companies deploy AI at scale and industrial robots continue to replace human labor slowly,