Sock-Slinging Robots and Sci-Fi Planters: The Best Smart Home Devices of CES 2025

 From a robot vacuum with a retractable arm to a beach umbrella that can charge your phone, our favorite smart home gadgets from CES 2025 promise to make your life a lot more convenient.

CES has become a wonderful and wacky show for smart home devices, with ambitious products in every corner that promise to add convenience to our homes in ways we never thought possible. Not everything shown at the Las Vegas tech convention comes to fruition, but even prototypes can help us gauge what home tech of the future might look like.

From AI-powered kitchen devices to smarter locks and pet doors, CES 2025 featured many promising innovations to level up your personal space. Moreover, some of the most exciting gadgets at the show weren’t just concepts but tangible products slated for release this year.

Check out our favorites below in no particular order. We include the price and release date where available so you can start building the wish list for your dream home today.

Constantly arguing with your partner about socks on the floor? The Roborock Saros Z70 is a high-end robot vacuum and mop with a five-axis retractable robot arm that can lift and move your junk. We've seen robots capable of picking up objects at CES in the past, but the Saros Z70 stands apart because it’s actually due to hit the market this year. Roborock hasn’t specified a price or release date yet, but we did get to see a functioning model in action at the show.
At launch, the arm will recognize and pick up socks, sandals, tissues, and towels weighing less than 10.6 ounces, with support for more objects coming later via firmware updates. Aside from the robot arm, the Saros Z70 has the specs to be a standout robot floor cleaner with an industry-leading 22,000Pa of suction power, new Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors for navigation, and a dock that can wash, dry, and remove the robot's mop pads as well as empty its dustbin. The Saros Z70 can even climb over small thresholds like the excellent Roborock Qrevo Curv that we reviewed last year.

If you’re looking to bring the technological comforts of home to your next beach day, the Solix Solar Umbrella from Anker can help keep your gear charged. The lightweight foldable umbrella has an IP67 waterproof rating and sunshade fabric to keep your plot of sand nice and cool. The fabric has Perovskite solar cells built in, so as you lounge in the sun, the umbrella gathers power. You’ll need to plug in a compatible Anker power station or device to harness that power; one of those supported gadgets is a high-tech cooler called the EverFrost 2 that will charge your devices while keeping your drinks cold. Both the cooler and umbrella are slated to go on sale this summer, but Anker hasn’t announced pricing.

Ultraloq makes our current favorite smart lock, the Bolt Fingerprint, and its new Bolt Mission UWB + NFC model promises to make unlocking your door an even more seamless process. With built-in ultra-wideband technology, the smart deadbolt will be able to detect your phone’s location with centimeter-level accuracy for a much more precise auto-unlocking experience compared with others that use Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi for geofencing. The ultra-wideband signal should also help the lock know which side of the door you’re on so it will never unlock accidentally while you move about the inside of your home.

The Ultraloq Bolt Mission will work with all major smart home platforms for interoperability, including Matter. As indicated by the name, it has integrated NFC to let you quickly unlock your door with a tap of your phone. Ultraloq is also updating the standard Bolt Fingerprint with Matter compatibility. The Ultraloq Bolt Mission UWB is expected to hit store shelves this spring for $399.

For an even splashier option to lock your door, the TCL Smart Lock D1 Ultra adds a video doorbell and a screen to the mix. It’s a smart deadbolt that visitors can ring like a doorbell. The camera on the front will show you their picture on your phone, and it’ll pop up on an interior screen so you can have a quick chat right on the lock before deciding whether or not to open the door. TCL hasn’t yet specified a price for the D1 Ultra. Lockly showed off a similar lock at CES called the Prestige, which will retail for $500.

Ring and Kidde announced a partnership at CES, so Kidde’s alarms, including both its smoke and combination smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, will now have Ring technology built in. That means you’ll be able to set up the alarms and get notified of any incidents through the Ring app. The alarms will connect to Wi-Fi on their own, so they won’t require a separate Ring hub. For an extra $5 monthly, you can sign up for professional monitoring so company agents will notify emergency services of the alarm sounding in case you're unable to do so.