The Best Robots of CES 2025

They can flick, flip, grab a candy bar and rush it into your waiting palm. The best robots CES 2025 At least compared to 2024, it didn’t show any revolution in the mobility department. Instead, robotics at this year’s CES—will the best or the strangest– seems to have focused on being cute for the camera.

The best CES bots from last year brought us humanoid models like Unitree’s faceless H1 and Enchanted Tool’s Mirokai, who likely has multiple faces. Those robot companies showed up at this year’s show with slightly improved models and, of course, the addition of artificial intelligence chatbots. Smaller players weren’t alone in adding AI to bots. Samsung and TCL attracted the crowd with home robots filled to the brim with AI models of vision and text.

Yukai Engineering Mirumi

Why would you want a robot in your life? Well, because it’s so cute, that’s why. Yukai Engineering’s Mirumi is a tiny, furry robot that sits in your pocket and watches the people around it. It does nothing but glance, and the only sensors involved help it recognize when people are around. For a real surprise Elf of a Shelf moment when people walk into your bedroom, you break his arms any way you like. With all the bots on this list suggesting you need an AI machine in your home to ask the question, Mirumi wants to look cute. This is how it succeeds.

Metapet Noono

People still go gaga over Tombot’s Jennie labrador robot and similar fuzzy bots. Fair enough though, why don’t we have more robotic animals to roam around our homes? Metapet unveiled the Noono AI robotic pet hamster at CES 2025. Ignore the big bright light coming from their nose. When you pet her, she responds by arching her back. When it needs to be refilled, you clip it into its own baby carrier-style basket.

Samsung ball

The Ballie was one of the stars of CES 2024, but it got a few upgrades in 2025. With an improved AI model, the ball-shaped bot can now provide more specific answers to users’ questions. The bot should also offer a faster response time, which was important for the demo where Samsung reps asked Ballie to recommend some wine options. The rolling 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 any additional information on a potential release date or possible pricing.

TCL Love

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

Galbot Convenience Store Bot

Nvidia’s showcase at CES included a number of demos for its new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards. Still, the company offered some space using Galbot chip manufacturer data set for hand robots. To demonstrate these abilities, Galbot rolled his humanoid onto a shelf full of candy and drinks, pinched it with his hook-shaped claws, and then slowly dropped the treat into the human’s hand. Were they able to keep their free snacks? No, of course not.

Unitree Go2 Robot Dog

Unitree showed off the bipedal G1 at CES, though the robot remained motionless when we visited the robotics company’s booth. Other reporters have noted that the G1 tends to sprint through participants at full speed because the controller presses the wrong button at the wrong time. Instead, Unitree had its four-legged dog bot, the Go 2, perform tricks for us. The dog bot could walk on two legs, walk on its hind legs, and perform spin movements with a simple command. Go 2 has an ultra-wide 4D LiDAR sensor for environmental monitoring. Even better, you can buy a tiny robot dog for $1,600. Compare that to Boston Dynamics’ similar robot dog, Spot, which costs about $74,500, and the Go2 seems more manageable.

Czai Tuesday

Imagine the Pixar light bulb mascot crawling towards you with its spidery legs and wobbly legs. Jzai’s Mi-Mo lamp is an attached six-legged table, but despite any initial apprehension, the bot is polite enough to wave its arm at the surrounding CES attendees. Mi-Mo uses multiple AI vision models 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 designalthough maybe if these tables stayed in tact I could have fun with a prop around my house.

Roborock Saros Z70

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