The invention discloses a robot and a robot control method. The robot comprises a machine main body with a hollow region, a display component installed in the hollow region, a body height detection component installed on the machine main body and used for detecting the body height of an interactive object and a center control element for controlling the display component to incline and/or stretch according to the detected body height. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the display component of the robot can rotate according to the body height of the interactive object, and the man-machine interaction performance of the robot is expanded.