TAIPEI, Taiwan ASUS used Computex 2026 to make one thing unmistakably clear: the company intends to be the connective tissue between the AI running in massive server farms and the AI that quietly manages your daily schedule. In a sweeping showcase at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, the Taiwanese tech giant pulled back the curtain on an expanded ecosystem stretching from rack-scale AI infrastructure all the way to companion robots and a new tablet.
Co-CEO S.Y. Hsu put the company’s ambition plainly: “At Computex 2026, we are bringing our vision of ubiquitous AI to life by connecting powerful infrastructure with meaningful, real-world experiences at the edge.” It’s a broad mandate, and ASUS backed it up with an unusually wide product spread.
Zenni Claw Takes Center Stage
The headliner of the show was arguably ASUS Zenni Claw, the company’s new personal agentic AI platform. Designed to make agentic AI practical and accessible from day one, Zenni Claw enables users to interact with AI that can understand intent, take action, and support everyday tasks across work, daily life, and travel. What sets it apart from a simple chatbot is its architecture: tasks are dynamically routed across local and cloud environments to optimize performance, capability, and cost, while a controlled architecture with built-in safety mechanisms helps ensure data protection and reliable operation. Setup reportedly takes three steps and a single click.
At the booth itself, ASUS brought the Zenni mascot to life as an interactive AI companion a lighter, more playful demonstration of the same underlying technology.
Heavy Iron: AI Infrastructure Gets an Upgrade
For enterprise customers with serious compute needs, ASUS is showcasing its AI POD built on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 a fully liquid-cooled, rack-scale platform purpose-built for trillion-parameter models and next-generation AI factories. The company is also adopting NVIDIA DSX to help customers simulate AI factory reference designs into deployment-ready infrastructure, significantly accelerating the time to first token generation.
On the desktop side, the ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 brings data center-level performance to a compact desk system, built on the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip with 748GB of coherent memory. It comes preloaded with the full NVIDIA AI software stack, making it a viable on-premises option for businesses that want to keep sensitive data off the cloud.
Workspace Wins: ExpertBook Ultra and the Ascent Line
Business notebook users got a notable new option in the ASUS ExpertBook Ultra, which earned a Computex 2026 Best Choice Award in the Sustainable Tech Special Award category. It offers up to an Intel Core Ultra X9 Series 3 processor paired with Intel Arc Pro graphics and supports sustainability through the Digital Product Passport framework and Product Environmental Footprint methodology to advance a circular economy. Built on the Intel vPro platform, the machine is also designed to meet NIST SP 800-193 resiliency guidelines a requirement for many enterprise procurement teams.
The compact computing lineup also expanded in a couple of interesting directions. The ASUS Ascent GX10, powered by the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with 128GB of unified memory, brings petaflop-class AI computing to agentic AI applications and serves as a central processing hub for NVIDIA NemoClaw-enabled software. It also picked up a Computex Best Choice Award in the AI Computing and Tech category.
Perhaps more surprising is the ASUS Ascent QN10. It’s the world’s first AI Mini PC with an 80 TOPS NPU, powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite, with an 18-core Qualcomm Oryon CPU and integrated Qualcomm Adreno GPU. This marks ASUS’s first foray into Qualcomm-powered AI PCs in the Mini PC category, broadening an ecosystem that previously leaned heavily on Intel and AMD.
Industrial AI: Built for the Harsh Stuff
ASUS also came prepared for customers whose equipment can’t afford to fail in a rainstorm or on a factory floor. The PE3000N, powered by NVIDIA Jetson Thor, delivers up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI performance with 128GB of built-in memory in a compact, deployment-ready form factor, supporting applications from humanoid robotics and autonomous machines to intelligent video analytics.
Complementing it is the rugged RUC-2000 series, purpose-built for machine vision, autonomous vehicle, and intelligent video analytics workloads in harsh, space-constrained environments. Powered by an Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processor delivering up to 180 AI TOPS, the RUC-2000H is a fanless 2U half-rack unit that can be combined with expansion units to form a standard 19-inch rack configuration called the RUC-2000G. The entire series carries MIL-STD-810H validation for 24/7 deployment reliability.
Everyday Life, Healthcare, and Gaming
The consumer side of the booth wasn’t left out. The latest Zenbook 14 and Vivobook S14/S16 lineup supports Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm platforms, with two new Ceraluminum color options Arctic Blue and Komodo Coral. A new ASUS Pad (T3201) tablet features a 12.2-inch 2.8K dual-layer OLED display at 144Hz, quad speakers with Dolby Atmos, and a 6.5mm chassis weighing just 523 grams.
In healthcare, ASUS showcased its Next-Generation Companion Robot, ASUS Kairo an autonomous service robot supporting guided navigation, follow-me assistance, and real-time information delivery alongside the ASUS Maestro orchestration platform, which connects robots, IoT devices, and workflows through standardized API integration. The company also unveiled a portable dual-probe ultrasound device called the DuoScan and the VivoWatch 6 Plus, a titanium-bodied smartwatch that adds sleep breathing monitoring and gait mobility assessment to the line’s established blood pressure and ECG tracking.
On the gaming side, the TUF Gaming T700 desktop pairs next-generation Intel or AMD processors with NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics in a 47-liter chassis featuring panoramic tempered-glass panels and MIL-STD-810H durability certification. Several new TUF Gaming motherboards covering Intel Z890 and AMD B850/X870 platforms round out the lineup, each incorporating ASUS’s AI-assisted tuning tools.
Samson Hu, ASUS’s other Co-CEO, summarized the company’s broader intent: “We are committed to enabling smarter, more sustainable, and more human-centered experiences through AI at every level.” Whether the sprawling product ecosystem can deliver on that promise will depend on execution but the ambition on display at Computex 2026 left little doubt about where ASUS is placing its bets.
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