They can scoot, flip, grab a candy bar, and lethargically leverage it into your awaiting palm.
The best robots ofCES 2025didnt show off any revolution in the mobility department, at least compared to 2024.
Instead, the robotics at this years CESwhether they werethe bestorweirdestseemed focused on acting cute for the camera.
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The smaller players werent alone in adding AI to bots.
Samsung and TCL drew crowds with their home robots full to the brim with vision and textual AI models.
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Why would you want a robot in your life?
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Well, because its so damn cute, thats why.
In that way, it succeeds.
Metapet Noono
People are still going gaga over Tombots Jennie labrador robot and similar fuzzy bots.
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Fair enough, though, why shouldnt we have more robotic animals to scurry around our homes?
Metapet showed off its Noono AI robotic pet hamster at CES 2025.
Ignore the large glowing light streaming out of their noses.
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When you pet it, it reacts by arching its back.
When it needs to recharge, you stick it in its own baby carrier-bang out basket.
With an improved AI model, the ball-shaped bot can now provide more specific answers to users questions.
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AiMe includes three cores that are full of different AI models.
The drive core lets it roll around, including speakers for sound.
Theres a final Mini Core that can detach and act as an on-the-go AI connection.
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The demos TCL used to showcase AiMe at CES didnt offer us a great sense of its full capabilities.
Still, the company also offered Galbot some space, using thechipmakers datasetfor hand robotics.
Did they get to keep their free snack?
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No, of course not.
Instead, Unitree had its quadrupedal dog bot, the Go 2, perform tricks for us.
The Go 2 has an ultra-wide 4D LiDAR sensor for monitoring its environment.
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Even better, you could buy the little robot dog starting at $1,600.
The Z70s Omnigrip arm component is supposed to track and pick up any rogue socks on your carpet.
News from the future, delivered to your present.
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Too bad it arrived at the same time as an even better one from Roborock.
