CES 2025 didn’t disappoint, with robots of all shapes and sizes designed for various applications. | Credit: The Robot Report. The annual Consumer Electronics Show brings together the latest in technology product announcements. Last week, Las Vegas was once again full of robotics and AI-based systems. While CES 2025 catered primarily to consumer electronics and robotics, we hunted down the commercial robotics products sprinkled throughout the event. The week started with a demo ride around the Las Vegas strip in an autonomous Zoox robotaxi

McNeilus, an Oshkosh Corporation business, debuted its new Volterra ZFL electric refuse and recycling collection vehicle (eRCV) at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2025.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreAt CES 2025 for the first time ever, Oshkosh launched a number of specialty vehicles with electric power, safety, quiet and cleanliness in mind.It’s an example of the trend of non-tech companies showing up with technology that makes products better but doesn’t take center stage. In this case, the 107-year-old company is bringing us EV postal service trucks, collision avoidance for first responders, and garbage pickup robots.Oshkosh announced its Collison Avoidance Mitigation System designed specifically to keep first responders and service workers safe while operating in high-risk roadside environments. The Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based company also launched AI and electrified solutions that improve refuse and recycling collection in communities and an innovative, autonomous robot designed for on-demand refuse collection that reduces weekly chores.“Technology is only as valuable as the positive impacts it has on our lives and our communities,” said John Pfeifer, Oshkosh CEO, in a statement. “Oshkosh has been working closely with our customers to find solutions to the toughest challenges for some of the hardest jobs in the world – from protecting firefighters to reducing pollution to tackling weekly chores. Our latest solutions use AI, autonomous, connected, and electrification technology to transform our neighborhoods and put technology to work for all of us to make our world safer, cleaner, quieter, and more sustainable.”Pfeifer said in a press briefing that the company leverages tech born on race tracks with its PrattMiller division, and then it takes them into areas like reducing risks for those working on the road with fire trucks or two trucks.Pfeifer said the company is working on tech for the airport of the future, the job site of the future and the neighborhood of the future.Smarter airports, postal trucks and garbage trucksAn Oshkosh smart jet bridge.In airports, anyone can see inefficiencies in airports like sitting around airports because of long lines or delays