LG Electronics will unveil the AI home robot "LG CLOiD." The company developed this humanlike robot to realize its ultimate goal in the home appliance business, "elevating life's value by freeing people from housework" (Zero Labor Home, Makes Quality Time).
LG Electronics said on the 4th that it will showcase the home robot "LG CLOiD" at CES 2026. CES 2026 is the world's largest IT and home appliance trade show, held in Las Vegas from the 6th to the 9th (local time). At this CES, LG Electronics will present a concrete vision of a "Zero Labor Home," a living space that requires little household labor, with CLOiD at the center.
Visitors to the LG Electronics booth can watch CLOiD perform housework on its own. The robot determines the order of tasks and acts based on the user's schedule and the home environment. It also has the ability to control multiple appliances.
◇ Arms with five fingers move at a "human level" to assist with housework
CLOiD consists of a head, torso and lower body. Two arms with five fingers are attached to the torso. The lower body uses a wheel-based Autonomous Driving system. It adjusts its posture on its own, changing the waist angle to set its height from 105 cm to 143 cm to suit the task. With an arm length of 87 cm, it can naturally grasp household items from the floor to shelves.
LG Electronics designed CLOiD's two arms to move at the same level as a human's. The company decided that only by implementing the most suitable form for the human-optimized living environment could it assist users with housework. The two arms move with seven degrees of freedom (DoF): ▲ three at the shoulder (forward-backward, left-right, rotation) ▲ one at the elbow (bending and straightening) ▲ three at the wrist (forward-backward, left-right, rotation). Each of the five fingers also has joints that move independently, enabling delicate motions.
LG Electronics has advanced its wheel-based Autonomous Driving system while developing the mobile AI smart home hub (control tower) Q9 and cleaning, serving and delivery robots. This system has been fully applied to CLOiD. The company said, "With the center of gravity low, it does not easily lose balance even if a child or a pet suddenly clings to it," adding, "Minimal vertical sway supports precise and free upper-body movement, and it is more price-accessible than bipedal walking, making commercialization favorable."
The head is equipped with a chipset as well as various sensors and cameras that perceive physical space. This enables voice-based Generative AI features. It also includes a display and speakers to communicate with users through language and expressions.
CLOiD's chipset, which serves as its brain, incorporates LG Electronics' in-house visual language model (VLM) and visual language action (VLA) technologies. The company said, "Based on a physical AI model (AI embedded in robots and devices to perceive physical space and make its own judgments), we trained it for tens of thousands of hours on housework task data to optimize the technology for a home robot," adding, "It learns residents' lifestyles and surrounding environments and can control home appliances based on that."
VLM interprets visual information into language and comprehensively understands language commands in relation to visual information. VLA is the technology that enables the robot to plan and execute specific actions based on this integrated visual and language information. LG Electronics plans to broaden service coverage by combining VLM and VLA with its AI home platform (ThinQ) and hub (ThinQ One).
◇ "CLOiD's capabilities" demonstrated through various scenarios
At this CES, LG Electronics plans to show through various scenarios how CLOiD operates within a home environment.
One demonstration shows CLOiD preparing breakfast by taking milk from the refrigerator and placing croissants in the oven according to a meal plan set the day before. It will also gather and hand over items needed for the schedule, such as a car key or a presentation remote.
After the user leaves for work, it takes laundry from a basket and puts it in the washing machine; when the wash is finished, it folds towels and organizes them, and it also clears obstacles along the route to coordinate with a cleaning robot's movements. Demonstrations will also show it counting reps when the user exercises at home or engaging in everyday conversation.
Baek Seung-tae, head of the HS Business Division (executive vice president) at LG Electronics, said, "We will continue our efforts toward the 'Zero Labor Home' vision, including the home robot 'LG CLOiD,' which interacts with people, understands them deeply and delivers optimized housework support."