AI Collars and Cameras Could Catch Pet Health Crises Before You Do
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AI Collars and Cameras Could Catch Pet Health Crises Before You Do

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Quick Take

  • CES 2026 is showcasing multiple pet tech products worth keeping an eye on, with similar themes across the items.
  • Multi-pet households, automatic feeders, smart bird feeders, and pet health are important focuses at CES 2026.
  • A unique robotic pet companion is making a heartfelt debut, designed to be a pet for those who can’t own one, given their health or otherwise.
  • We chose our top five favorite products from CES 2026, opting for practical, unique items you may be interested in as well!

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES for short) is the place to be right now if you’re in tech, and the new pet tech currently unveiling in 2026 is a booming business. The standout products at CES 2026 serve different purposes, but many share similar themes. We take a look at the coolest, most useful pet gadgets that may be making a splash in the near future.

It’s important to mention that most of these items are prototypes or not yet widely available to consumers. I haven’t tested any of these products and can’t fully vouch for them; I just think they’re interesting and you might, too. Here are some standout products from CES—some of the coolest pet tech heading our way.

PETKIT Yumshare Daily Feast

Using AI and a precisely positioned camera, PETKIT’s Yumshare Daily Feast is an automatic wet-food feeder concept designed to portion meals on a schedule while simultaneously tracking what your pet actually eats.

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Automatic feeders aren’t necessarily new, but wet automatic feeders are rarer, which is what PETKIT debuted at CES.

Early reporting from The Verge says the system is built around precise management and additional sanitation features, including leftover monitoring so that it’s easy for cat parents to keep an eye on food freshness.

PETKIT Eversweet Ultra

In the same debut as the Yumshare Daily Feast, PETKIT’s Eversweet Ultra was announced. It is a smart water fountain that aims to do more than circulate water by tracking drinking patterns for individual pets in multi-pet homes.

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If your cat needs a water bowl upgrade and lives with other pets, PETKIT has a product that may interest you.

How does it accomplish this? The fountain pairs a camera with analytics to distinguish your pets, and ultimately creates a more hygiene-focused design, including a system intended to keep used water separate from fresh water.

Cheerble Pet Feeder Match G1

Multi-pet households were a major focus at CES, and Cheerble’s Pet Feeder Match G1 is built for situations where diet mix-ups and food stealing are constant issues.

A girl with her cat and dog

Multi-pet households were considered for many pet tech items presented at CES.

The key feature of this feeder is on-device visual recognition, which is designed to happen locally rather than relying entirely on cloud processing. Whatever technology it uses, this feeder is meant to keep Fido from stealing the cat kibble, or vice versa.

Oneisall Ease S1 Self-Cleaning Litter Box

The Oneisall Ease S1 is a self-cleaning litter box that focuses on both maintenance and automation, with modular parts intended to detach quickly for rinsing and cleaning. I imagine this could be a serious game-changer for cat owners. This product’s fully detachable approach is a practical differentiator in a category where the box can become harder to clean than the litter itself, making it a popular product at CES.

Dreame AI Pet Health Collar

With activity tracking features similar to a smartwatch, Dreame’s AI-powered Pet Health Collar helps pet parents build a clearer day-to-day picture of how their pet is doing. Monitoring a pet’s activity can help pinpoint their anxiety or other health concerns, as well as allow owners to keep an eye on heart rate. Plus, if your dog is walked during the day while you’re at work, you can track their route.

SATELLAI Collar Go

A clear competitor to Dreame’s collar, the SATELLAI Collar Go is a GPS-enabled pet collar with location tracking and an added layer of baseline analytics designed to flag health changes.

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While location tracking has existed in collars for some time, CES’s debuts are adding more tech.

This product also boasts multimodal monitoring, which is where most pet wearables appear to be headed next. This means pet tech tracks multiple signals at once—such as activity, location, eating, drinking, and bathroom patterns—to build a clearer picture of what’s normal for your pet. The goal is to help pet parents catch meaningful changes earlier.

PetPogo PetPhone & PetCam

Here’s a bit of a wild one: uCloudlink’s PetPogo PetPhone is a wearable concept designed with location features and two-way communication, allowing owners to check in more directly when they’re away. Do you want Fido to be able to call you at work? I’ll leave that up to you.

There are many types of pet cams out there, but this one is wearable and shows off your pet’s point of view.

The companion product is also interesting. Called the PetPogo PetCam, it’s a lightweight, wearable camera meant to capture a pet’s activity from their unique perspective. Framed as a care tool, it may offer fascinating insights into your pet’s life.

Tombot Jennie

With fur, a heartbeat, a fair price point, and a beautiful debut at CES, Tombot’s Jennie is a robotic companion meant to provide comfort for people who can’t have a live pet. Seniors and those with health limitations experienced this product at the convention and were reportedly over the moon about its realism.

Birdfy’s New Smart Backyard Lineup (Bath Pro, Vista, Hum Bloom, and More)

Birdfy showcased a myriad of backyard products that lean into a recent pet product trend: smart birdfeeders. With camera hardware, bird identification programming, and plenty of automation, Birdfy’s multiple products all stood out in their own ways.

Birdfy has many smart bird feeders out there already, but they’re expanding beyond feeders now.

For example, the CES-recognized Birdfy Bath Pro smart birdbath is designed for four-season use, with the camera high-tech enough to track individual birds’ movements. Ahead of CES, Birdfy also previewed a hummingbird-focused feeder designed for better framing and slow-motion captures, as well as the Feeder Vista, a 360-style feeder best for panoramic video. Additional products, such as nesting boxes and more feeder variations, may expand the lineup, suggesting the smart bird feeder trend isn’t going anywhere.

Fompet

Billed as “15 Seconds to Insightful Pet Health,” Fompet was lauded at CES as a quick-check health tool. Aimed at surfacing obesity-related risk indicators faster, it uses a short measurement process and an app-based readout to help pet parents perform at-home wellness and weight monitoring.

Obese pug sitting on scale that reads "Overweight"

Obesity is a widespread issue in pets, but Fompet is attempting to make it easier to understand and control for the average pet parent.

While it is not a diagnostic device and routine vet appointments are always recommended, this may be valuable for many pet situations, especially if it’s difficult to determine your pet’s optimal size for health.

The 5 CES 2026 Pet Tech Products I’m Most Excited About

As a fairly simple pet parent, not all of the products at CES interested me. However, I tend to gravitate toward the kind of pet tech that makes daily routines easier. The buzz around these products at CES 2026 also suggests that many other pet parents want that, too. These are the products I’m most excited about from CES.

PETKIT Yumshare Daily Feast & Waterer

Even though I don’t own a cat, I think it’s about time someone figured out how to automate wet food feeding. It’s a stinky, messy, time-sensitive, and unsanitary process, especially when it comes to knowing how long the food in your cat’s bowl stays fresh.

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Wet food automatic feeders are being made, but rarely do they place such a focus on freshness.

PETKIT’s system feels realistic for everyday use and utilizes a routine-first approach that seems built for real pet-parent life. Plus, their automatic water sounds like a winner to me. For whatever reason, my chihuahua refuses to drink after my pit bull, preferring his water fresher than I can imagine. If you’ve got a picky pup like me, PETKIT’s got you covered.

Cheerble Match G1 Visual Recognition Feeder

Multi-pet homes often need to solve food stealing, which is why Cheerble’s product stood out to me. With visual recognition, it makes food access personal and secure; bowls won’t open unless it’s the correct pet. Since my chihuahua is always trying to steal my pit bull’s food, this product seemed like a winner to me. Sorry, little man—no extra food for you!

Oneisall Ease S1 Self-Cleaning Litter Box

A rinse-friendly design on a self-cleaning litter box is essential, and Oneisall makes this a priority.

Automatic toilet for cats. Pet gadgets

Self-cleaning litter boxes are a wonderful tool for some households.

They decided to make “self-cleaning” truly manageable, which is what we all thought it was meant to do in the first place. Since we have to get our hands dirty anyway, it should be easier to get the job done.

Tombot Jennie Robotic Puppy

A product built around pet companionship and emotional support for people who can’t safely care for a live dog is a wonderful thing. Sure, the coverage of this item was tearjerking, but hopefully that means they’ve truly made something impactful—and that it will be affordable.

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Senior citizens often benefit from having a pet around, but they may not be able to fully take care of them.

It feels designed for a real and often-neglected need, which makes it genuinely meaningful.

Birdfy Bath Pro

Sure, Birdfy’s Bath Pro is the kind of CES product that turns your backyard into a daily nature show, but its practical, outdoor-friendly features make it sound built for real use.

Birdfy’s upgraded bath may prove more durable than past products, making it usable year-round.

The durability and four-season usability are huge selling points, and this is a product I may consider purchasing.

What Products Would You Purchase From CES?

CES 2026 is making one thing obvious: pet tech is becoming all the more tech-heavy. However, some of these products focus on medical benefits, such as reducing uncertainty about our pets’ health and routines. Not every product may make it to your home or backyard, but one of these might prove useful in your daily life, if not simply entertaining. While many of these launches are still in development, we hope some make it to the finish line. As these announcements make clear, we love our pets and want to make all of our lives easier and safer.

August Croft

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August Croft

August Croft is a writer at A-Z Animals where their primary focus is on astrology, symbolism, and gardening. August has been writing a variety of content for over 4 years and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theater from Southern Oregon University, which they earned in 2014. They are currently working toward a professional certification in astrology and chart reading. A resident of Oregon, August enjoys playwriting, craft beer, and cooking seasonal recipes for their friends and high school sweetheart.
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