The best robots at CES 2025

They can move, turn, grab a candy and lethargically drop it into your waiting palm. The best robots of CES 2025 doesn’t show any revolution in the mobility department, at least compared to 2024. Instead, the robotics at this year’s CES—whether they are the best or most strange— seemed focused on acting cute for the camera.

The best bots of last year’s CES brought us humanoid models like Unitree’s faceless H1 and Enchanted Tool’s Mirokai with probably too much face. Those same robotics companies showed up at this year’s show with slightly improved models and, of course, the addition of AI chatbots. Smaller players weren’t alone in adding AI to bots. Samsung and TCL drew crowds with their home robots filled to the brim with vision and text AI models.

Yukai Engineering Mirumi

Why would you want a robot in your life? Well, because he’s damn cute, that’s why. Yukai Engineering’s Mirumi is a small, furry robot that sits in your pocket and stares at the people around it. It does nothing but stare, and the only sensors on it help it recognize when there are people around it. You position his arms however you like for a real surprise Elf of a Shelf moment when people walk into your bedroom. With all the bots on this list suggesting you need an AI-powered machine in your home to ask questions, Mirumi wants to make it look cute. In this way it succeeds.

Metapet Nuno

People still go crazy over Tombot’s Jennie labrador robot and similar fuzzy bots. Honestly, though, why not have more robotic animals walking around our homes? Metapet showed off its Noono AI pet hamster robot at CES 2025. Ignore the big glowing light streaming from their noses. When you stroke it, it responds by arching its back. When it needs to be recharged, you place it in its own baby carrier basket.

Samsung ball

Ballie was one of the stars of CES 2024, but for 2025 received several improvements. With an improved AI model, the ball-shaped bot can now provide more specific answers to users’ questions. The bot should also offer faster response times, which was important for a demo where Samsung representatives asked Ballie to recommend a selection of some wines. The mobile robot still has a projector screen that allows users to interact with it, though it may still be too slow for most users who expect instant gratification. Before you ask, Samsung hasn’t revealed anything about a potential release date, nor any more info on possible pricing.

TCL Love

TCL’s concept robot looked a lot like Samsung’s Ballie, except for a cute baby animal-like head. AiMe includes three “cores” that are filled with different AI models. The drive core allows it to spin around, including speakers for sound. “Baby Core” includes more AI functionality, allowing it to use AI vision and speech to interact with users. There is a final “Mini Core” that can detach and act as an AI link on the fly. The demos that TCL used to show off the AiMe at CES didn’t offer us a great sense of its full capabilities. Instead, we watched a baby bot roll around, blink and offer us a taste of a future where cute bots take over.

Galbot shop bot

Nvidia’s CES showcase included plenty of demos for its new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. Still, the company offered Galbot some space using chip manufacturer data set for manual robotics. To demonstrate these abilities, Galbot had their humanoid roll over to a shelf full of candy and drinks, grab it with its toothy claws, and then very slowly drop the treat into the human’s hand. Did they manage to keep their free breakfast? Of course not.

Unitree Go2 Robot Dog

Unitree showed off its bipedal G1 model at CES, though the robot remained motionless when we visited the robotics company’s booth. Other reporters mentioned that the G1 was prone to sprinting at full speed towards those present only because the controller pressed the wrong button at the wrong time. Instead, Unitree had its four-legged dog bot, Go 2, perform tricks for us. The dog bot could walk on two legs, walk on its hind legs and perform flips with a simple command. The Go 2 has an ultra-wide 4D LiDAR sensor for environmental monitoring. Even better, you can buy the little robot dog for $1,600. Compare that to Boston Dynamics’ similar Spot robot dog, which can cost around $74,500, and the Go2 seems a lot more manageable.

Jzai Wed-Mon

Imagine if Pixar’s lamp mascot grew spider legs and waddled towards you on wobbly limbs. Jzai’s Mi-Mo is a six-legged table with a lamp attached, but despite the initial fear, the bot is polite enough to wave to the surrounding CES attendees. Mi-Mo uses multiple models of AI vision to try to interact with its environment, though it’s still relatively limited in what it can do. Its current design is not as fast as other crab tables last year’s Carpentopod designthough perhaps, if these tables remain polite, I could entertain myself with a prop around my home.

Roborock Saros Z70

Robovacs don’t usually get as much excitement from the robotics crowd as they used to, but add a hand to one and suddenly a device like the Roborock Saros Z70 looks new. The Z70’s “Omnigrip” arm component is supposed to track and pick up any fake socks on your carpet. It’s not fast, but if you or your kids are too lazy to bend over and pick up the junk from your floor, the Saros Z70 will do it for you.