CES show highlights: Robo-dogs, self-sailing boat, brain tech

People viewing the Boston Dynamics robots Spot, front, and Atlas, rear, at the Hyundai booth during the CES tech show in Las Vegas. — AP

LAS VEGAS: The CES tech show in Las Vegas closed its 2022 edition on Jan 7, after pushing ahead with a significantly downsized gathering despite surging Covid cases.

Industry behemoths like Amazon and Google stayed away over the virus risk, but the more than 2,200 firms big and small in attendance still pitched their hopes for the next big thing.

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People viewing the Boston Dynamics robots Spot, front, and Atlas, rear, at the Hyundai booth during the CES tech show in Las Vegas. — AP

Achiakh demonstrates how he can stop the music playing on his smartphone simply by moving the jaw through a technology that enables a connected device to detect and interpret electric signals sent by the brain to a muscle during the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan 6, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. — AFP

Achiakh holds a pair of prototype earbuds that allow him to stop the music playing on his smartphone simply by moving his jaw. French startup Wisear is working on a technology that detects electrical signals between the brain and certain muscles to communicate with connected devices. — AFP

Hyundai presented what it called the first “self-driving” boat, equipped with cameras, depth sensors and artificial intelligence systems. AFP

A Moonbike on display at the CES tech show. The Moonbike is the world's first electric snow bike. — AP

An attendee sits for a demonstration in a model of the Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group's Avikus autonomous cruising leisure boat at CES in Las Vegas, Nevada. — AFP

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