LG Electronics (LG) introduced LG CLOiD™, an AI-powered home robot making its first public appearance at CES® 2026. Designed to take on everyday household chores, LG CLOiD represents a major milestone in LG’s “Zero Labour Home” vision—where intelligent machines handle time-consuming tasks, giving people more freedom to focus on what matters most.
Built on LG’s advancements in Physical AI, robotics and smart home platforms, LG CLOiD works seamlessly with the ThinQ™ ecosystem to automate daily life. The robot expands on LG’s Self-Driving AI Home Hub (LG Q9), showcasing how robotics and connected appliances can come together to create a truly intelligent home environment.
Real-World Home Automation in Action
At CES 2026, LG will demonstrate LG CLOiD operating in realistic home settings. In one scenario, the robot retrieves milk from the refrigerator and places a croissant into the oven to prepare breakfast. Once household occupants leave, LG CLOiD independently starts laundry cycles, then folds and neatly stacks clothes after drying.
These demonstrations highlight the robot’s ability to understand user routines, interpret context and precisely control connected appliances, bringing hands-free home management closer to reality.
Designed for Everyday Living Spaces
LG CLOiD features a human-inspired design consisting of a head unit, a torso with two articulated arms and a wheeled base with autonomous navigation. The torso can tilt to adjust height, allowing the robot to pick up objects from knee level or higher surfaces such as countertops.
Each arm offers seven degrees of freedom, mirroring the flexibility of a human arm. With independently controlled shoulder, elbow and wrist joints, along with five articulated fingers per hand, LG CLOiD can delicately handle a wide variety of household objects across kitchens, laundry rooms and living areas.
The wheeled base leverages LG’s autonomous driving expertise from robot vacuums and the LG Q9. Its low centre of gravity ensures stability and safety, minimising the risk of tipping if bumped by children or pets, while also keeping the design cost-effective for future scalability.
A Mobile AI Home Hub
The robot’s head functions as a mobile AI home hub, housing its main chipset, display, speaker, cameras, sensors and voice-based generative AI. Together, these components allow LG CLOiD to communicate naturally with users through speech and expressive visual cues, learn household layouts and routines, and manage connected appliances intelligently based on user habits.
Physical AI Powered by Vision and Language
At the core of LG CLOiD is LG’s Physical AI, built on two key technologies:
● Vision Language Model (VLM): Transforms images and video into structured, language-based understanding
● Vision Language Action (VLA): Converts visual and verbal inputs into real-world physical actions
Trained on tens of thousands of hours of household task data, these models enable LG CLOiD to recognise appliances, understand user intent and perform context-aware actions such as opening doors, transferring objects or initiating appliance operations.
Seamless Integration with ThinQ and ThinQ ON
LG CLOiD’s capabilities are amplified through integration with LG’s ThinQ™ AI Home Platform and ThinQ ON™ hub. This connectivity allows the robot to coordinate tasks across a wide range of LG appliances, creating a unified smart home experience where devices work together autonomously.
Introducing LG Actuator AXIUM™ for Robotics
Alongside LG CLOiD, LG is also unveiling LG Actuator AXIUM™, a new brand of robotic actuators designed for service robots and advanced automation.
Actuators, responsible for movement and torque, are among the most critical and costly components in robotics. Drawing on decades of component expertise from its home appliance business, LG aims to deliver actuators that are lightweight, compact, highly efficient and capable of high torque.
LG’s modular design approach also supports customizable, multi-variant production, an essential capability for advanced robots that require dozens of specialised actuators.
A Roadmap Toward the AI Home
Looking ahead, LG plans to continue developing practical home robots while expanding robotics technology across its appliance lineup. This includes categories such as “Appliance Robots” like robot vacuums, and “Robotised Appliances” such as refrigerators with doors that automatically open as a person approaches.
The long-term goal is a fully realised AI Home, where housework is largely handled by intelligent appliances and robots, freeing users to rest, relax and spend more time on meaningful activities.
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