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The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is a Spanish-UK collaboration project to build the world's largest robotic telescope with a projected on-sky date of 2026. The project has recently received funding from STFC and is approaching its critical design review stage. The 4m segmented mirror telescope is designed for rapid response, seeing-limited observations of the time-domain and transient universe in an autonomous and efficient manner. The NRT will join the Liverpool Telescope on Roque de los Muchachos providing an integrated time-domain facility designed to provide rapid response classification of survey objects from a variety of sources. Our universe is explosive, variable and ever-changing; often going unnoticed. A key science case of the New Robotic Telescope (NRT) is to capture these rapidly fading events before they are too faint for even the largest aperture telescopes. The NRT project is making good progress and is working towards its Critical Design Review. This session will contain: (i) project progress update: summary talks from NRT team, (ii) science working group interactions: engagement with the science community to address the outstanding key science questions to constrain the final telescope design and discuss instrumentation capability, (iii) science presentations from future user community: examples of science progress in each of the key science areas of the telescope (stars, binaries and stellar astrophysics, supernovae, AGN and TDEs, solar system and exoplanets, GRBs and gravitational wave optical counterpart follow-up)