LG CLOiD Home Robot at CES 2026, Image/LG Electronics
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LG CLOiD, an AI-enabled home robot that will be featured publicly for the first time at CES 2026. LG CLOiD connects seamlessly with LG’s ThinQ ecosystem for an automated home.
The new home robot is part of LG Electronics’ Zero Labor Home Vision. Zero Labor Home Vision translates into home robots or “intelligent machines” doing most of the mundane everyday chores such as laundry or cooking, instead of you:
Designed to perform and coordinate household tasks across connected home appliances, CLOiD is intended to reduce the time and physical effort required for everyday chores. The system represents LG’s latest development in AI-based home robotics and smart home platforms, building on the company’s Self-Driving AI Home Hub (LG Q9), and the ThinQ ecosystem.
The LG CLOiD is comprised of a head unit, torso with two articulated arms and a wheeled base controlled by autonomous navigation:
Each arm has seven degrees of freedom, matching the mobility of a human arm. The shoulder, elbow and wrist allow forward, backward, rotational and lateral motion, while each hand includes five independently actuated fingers for fine manipulation. This configuration allows LG CLOiD to handle a wide range of household objects and operate in kitchens, laundry rooms and living areas.
LG CLOiD Home Robot Doing Dishes, Image/LG Electronics
The wheeled base design comes from the autonomous driving technology from LG’s robot vacuums and the LG Q9. The technology used results in stability, safety and cost-effectiveness, with a low center of gravity.
The LG CLOiD’s head is a mobile AI home hub. LG CLOiD’s brain, a chipset includes a display, a speaker, cameras, various sensors and voice-based generative AI:
Collectively, these elements allow the robot to communicate with humans through spoken language and “facial expressions,” learn the living environments and lifestyle patterns of its users and control connected home appliances based on its learnings.
Physical AI technology ultimately drives the LG CLOiD to recognize appliances, interpret user intent and execute context-appropriate actions such as opening doors or transferring objects.
The Physical AI technology combines two models trained on tens of thousands of hours of household task data:
- Vision Language Model (VLM) – converts images and video into structured, language-based understanding
- Vision Language Action (VLA) – translates visual and verbal inputs into physical actions
LG CLOiD Home Robot Serving a Croissant, Image/LG Electronics
At CES 2006 the home robot will perform various and complicated tasks such as retrieving milk from a refrigerator and placing a croissant into an oven for breakfast. LG CLOiD also will demonstrate laundry tasks and folding garments after drying.
LG is also introducing LG Actuator AXIUM, which is Robotics Components for Physical AI or robotic actuators for service and robots:
An actuator serves as a robot’s joint, integrating a motor that generates rotational force, a drive that controls electrical signals and a reducer that regulates speed and torque. As one of the most critical and cost-intensive components in a robot, actuators are widely regarded as a strategic upstream technology in the emerging era of Physical AI.
Beyond home robots LG Electronics will also expand its offerings to “Appliance Robots” and “Robotized Appliances”:
Simultaneously, the company will expand the application of its accumulated robotics technology to home appliances, creating categories such as “Appliance Robots” like robot vacuums, and “Robotized Appliances” like refrigerators with doors that open automatically as a person approaches. The ultimate goal is to create an “AI Home” where housework is entrusted to AI appliances and home robots, allowing people to rest, enjoy themselves and spend their time on more valuable activities.