A Tamagotchi-like virtual pet powered by AI for the 21st century

Описание: (7 Jan 2026)
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Las Vegas, Nevada, US - 6 January 2026

1. Various of Irving Gao, Takway, interacting with Sweekar AI pocket pet
2. Sign, reading (English): “The world’s first AI pocket pet”
3. Sweekar poster
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Irving Gao, Takway:
"Sweekar is a world-first AI pocket pet that can physically, truly grow up with you. And then it combines Tamagotchi-like virtual pet experience, gameplay, and then it combines the AI, enhanced by the AI ability, such as we have the MBTI personality, and it also has the AI memories. It can remember your very shared memories and the shared moments, and then it also can how you treat it, and how the MBTI personality will be. So treat it nice, please."

5. Sweekar “hatching”
6. Various of Gao interacting with Sweekar
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Irving Gao, Takway:
"Actually, every day you can talk to it and take care of it, such as Tamagotchi. And you can feed it, wash it, and play with it."

8. Various of Sweekar AI pocket pet
9. Sweekar poster
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Irving Gao, Takway:
"I love traveling, but traveling is hard to take a real pet. So, this kind of small pet is very portable to take away. And the first one, and secondly, is I want a companion pet that can really know me and to share all the memory and share any details with me. And she loves me. Yeah, this is all I ever want."

11. Sweekar AI pocket pet
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China-based Takway’s Sweekar pocket pet uses artificial intelligence to change and grow with its owner - slowly emerging from its egg-style casing .

The Tamagotchi-like device has been given a 21st century upgrade with AI memory and a personality.


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Meet Sweekar, a Tamagotchi-like virtual pet powered by AI for the 21st century.

The gadget first hatches, then grows and adapts from Baby stage, to Teen stage, to Adult stage.

Owners can feed it, play with it, and more, while slowly watching its unique personality develop thanks to inbuilt AI.

"Sweekar is a world-first AI pocket pet that can physically, truly grow up with you. And then it combines Tamagotchi-like virtual pet experience, gameplay, and then it combines the AI,” explains Irving Gao from Takway.

Gao says he created Sweekar because he found it is difficult to own a pet and travel frequently.

“This kind of small pet is very portable to take away,” he says.

“I want a companion pet that can really know me and to share all the memory and share any details with me.”

CES, the annual trade show of all things tech, opened on Tuesday, its set to run till Friday, January 9th.

Formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, CES brings attendees and exhibitors from all over the world.

CES 2025 saw more than 141,000 attendees from over 150 countries, regions and territories, according to the CTA.

More than 4,500 exhibitors, including 1,400 start ups, are expected this year.

AP Video by James Brooks

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