Rokid introduces display-free AI smartglasses at CES 2026

Smartglasses firm Rokid has launched new display-free AI glasses at CES 2026. Dubbed “Type”, the glasses are supposed for all-day use and are appropriate with customers’ corrective prescriptions.

Type helps a number of AI engines, together with ChatGPT and DeepSeek, as an alternative of being locked to any LLM. The glasses also can work with Google Maps and Microsoft AI translation.

Type is powered by a dual-chip setup, with an NXP RT600 dealing with low-power, always-on duties and a Qualcomm AR1 taking up heavier AI and imaging workloads. Rokid claims this structure helps it attain as much as 12 hours of battery life underneath typical use.

A 12MP digital camera with a Sony sensor on the entrance helps 4K seize. Video might be shot in three totally different facet ratios, which Rokid says makes it simpler for creators to make content material for various platforms. Type can file as much as 10 minutes of steady footage, which Rokid is fast to level out exceeds the roughly three-minute restrict on Meta Ray-Bans.

The glasses weigh 38.5 grams and sport ultra-thin lenses with anti-scratch coatings. Type is a bit lighter than the Rokid smartglasses that earlier this 12 months, which embrace a show. The corporate additionally presents transition lenses in a wide range of colours and the frames are provided in two.

Type is obtainable for reservation now with a one greenback deposit and can formally launch globally January 19. The AI sensible glasses will retail for $300. Glasses bought for a vision-impaired consumer will obtain a 20 greenback subsidy from Rokid.