CES Innovation Awards 2027: 21 robotics honorees, with Galbot's ET1 taking Best of Innovation
CTA revealed the CES Innovation Awards 2027 honorees: 21 robotics winners, led by Galbot's ET1 as Best of Innovation and Agility's Digit 5.
The Consumer Technology Association revealed the CES Innovation Awards 2027 honorees on November 9, and robotics took one of the biggest slices of the list: 21 products made the Robotics category, running from Agility's Digit 5 humanoid to a light-field display built to give humanoid faces expression. The awards land two months before the show opens in Las Vegas on January 6, and they read like an early map of what the show floor will be about.
The category's top prize went to Galbot's ET1, the only Best of Innovation winner among the 21 robotics honorees. The awards are judged on engineering and functionality, aesthetic and design, and what makes a product unique — and in robotics this year, the judges put their highest mark on Galbot's embodied-AI machine.
Agility's Digit 5 was honoured in both Robotics and Supply & Logistics, its second milestone in a week after the company began trading on Nasdaq on November 5. The CES showing in January will be the first time Digit 5 prototypes are demonstrated in public, and Agility has tied more than $300 million in planned orders to the new model. For a company that went public on the promise of a robot nobody has seen work yet, the award is an early piece of third-party validation.
The rest of the list shows how wide robotics has become at CES. AGIBOT's OmniHand 3 Ultra, a dexterous hand, was honoured in both Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. LG Display won for an 8-inch light-field display designed as a humanoid face. Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ10 robotics reference design, Booster Robotics' K1 air, Osenze's LightSkin tactile sensor and the IRMO M1 vision-based exoskeleton fill out the stack from compute and sensing down to the body. ECOVACS' LilMilo, golerobotics' ND-1 delivery platform and Vacatio's multi-robot hotel coordination software show the category reaching into homes, warehouses and hospitality.
Honorees that exhibit at CES can display their products in the Innovation Awards Showcase at the Venetian Expo, and some may hold their announcement under embargo until 4 PM Pacific on January 4, when CES Unveiled opens. What the list settles now is the shape of January: humanoids, hands and the components around them will be the robotics story of CES 2027, with Digit 5's first public demo and the ET1's Best of Innovation turn as the two moments to watch.