Healthcare is being squeezed from both ends: patient demand keeps rising, while front desk, intake, and nursing teams are understaffed. The result is visible everywhere — long lines, frustrated patients, overwhelmed staff, and constant interruptions that pull clinicians away from care.

Healthcare education is rapidly moving online — yet one major barrier remains stubbornly physical: clinical simulations still require students to travel to campus.

Today, AI-powered clinical simulation is changing that model.

At CES 2026, HumanBeam approached engagement differently.

Visitors encountered life-size AI holograms dancing, greeting guests, and conversing naturally in 28 languages. Attendees stopped not just to watch but to interact.

The booth remained continuously active because visitors were curious, engaged, and shared their experience with others.

HumanBeam’s conversational AI holograms solve this problem by creating interactive digital humans that naturally attract attention.

People stop, interact, and ask questions because the assistant feels human rather than mechanical.

An AI voice agent is a conversational system that understands spoken language and responds naturally, allowing customers to interact through voice instead of waiting for human support.

HumanBeam combines natural voice AI with lifelike digital humans, creating interactions that feel conversational rather than mechanical. Customers can ask questions naturally while seeing and speaking to a digital assistant that understands context and intent.

Hotels worldwide are facing a growing operational challenge.

Front desks are understaffed. Employee turnover is high. Guests arrive late at night expecting fast service, directions, and recommendations — but hotels struggle to maintain staff around the clock.

Healthcare training faces another challenge: simulation sessions require hiring actors to play patients. These sessions are costly, inconsistent, and hard to schedule.

HumanBeam introduces AI patient actors for simulation training, allowing medical students and staff to practice scenarios anytime with consistent, repeatable patient interactions.

To replace costly, non-scalable human actors and static case studies, universities are integrating HumanBeam's visual conversational AI into healthcare education.

The core innovation is Michael Latre, an interactive AI persona. Michael is a middle-aged, homeless Canadian man presenting to the ED with severe COPD. Students speak directly to him, hearing realistic symptoms like "breathing through a straw."

HumanBeam's AI transforms a coach's static book into an interactive, personalized leadership course, solving the "time vs. scale" issue of expensive personal mentoring. The AI, created with the coach's likeness, uses videos and programming to offer feedback, ask questions, and provide deeper insights. This scalable, branded app model monetizes expertise. For institutions, the AI acts as a "super person" mentor, setting a new standard for high-level, communicative leadership training.

An AI voice agent is a conversational system that uses speech recognition and natural language processing to understand spoken requests and respond in real time. Most AI voice agents today operate through phone calls or voice-only interfaces, replacing traditional IVR systems and reducing call center load.