LG Electronics announced the CLOiD home robot and promised to publicly demonstrate it for the first time at CES 2026. The device should relieve the owner of some of the routine: from small kitchen tasks to laundry.
LG Electronics announced the CLOiD home robot and promised to publicly demonstrate it for the first time at CES 2026. The device should relieve the owner of some of the routine: from small kitchen tasks to laundry.
According to LG’s press service, at the booth in Las Vegas from January 6-9, the robot will show several «domestic scenes.» In a breakfast scenario, it takes milk from the refrigerator and puts a croissant in the oven, and when residents leave the house, it starts the laundry, folds and lays out the clothes after drying.
CLOiD has a head with a screen, cameras, microphones and sensors. In fact, it is a mobile hub of a smart home, which controls the equipment through the ThinQ and ThinQ ON ecosystem. LG explains that the «brain» of the robot combines computer vision and generative AI: it recognizes objects and situations, understands voice requests and converts them into specific actions. The company claims that the models were trained on tens of thousands of hours of data on homework.
The main tasks are performed by two arms with 7 degrees of freedom and five separately controlled fingers, and the body can bend to reach things from about knee level and above (i.e., it will be difficult to pick up objects from the floor). The robot moves on wheels with a low center of gravity, so LG is trying to make it more stable and safer in an apartment.
CLOiD is developing the idea of the LG Q9 (Self-Driving AI Home Hub) and the «Zero Labor Home», but the company has not yet announced the price or the timing of the robot’s appearance on sale. For now, it is about demonstrating the concept and technologies at CES.
Previously, dev.ua wrote about how Chinese robotics company AgiBot launched Qingtian Rent, a new platform for renting humanoid robots for 16 different uses. The robots can be rented for weddings, business meetings, concerts, exhibitions, and more.
