LG Electronics has unveiled its futuristic CLOiD Home Robot at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, showcasing what it describes as a major step toward its long-term vision of the “Zero Labor Home”. Unlike single-purpose appliances, CLOiD is designed to take on multiple household tasks autonomously, integrating robotics and AI to free up time for users in an ever-busier world.
Capabilities and chores
CLOiD can’t exactly cook, but it can help out in the kitchen.
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While LG has not released full detailed specifications yet, the CLOiD Home Robot demonstrated a suite of practical capabilities that go beyond anything typically seen in consumer robotics:
- Laundry Handling: CLOiD can pick up, sort and fold laundry, returning neatly folded clothes to designated locations, a task that combines mechanical precision with spatial awareness.
- Dishwasher Support: It can unload and stack dishes from the dishwasher, helping close one of the most time-consuming loops in everyday chores.
- Basic Cooking Tasks: Early demos show CLOiD capable of assisting with food preparation, such as putting things into an oven, although full autonomous cooking remains an evolving skill.
LG’s presentation highlights multi-modal sensors, advanced object recognition, adaptive locomotion and integrated home mapping, enabling CLOiD to navigate homes and interact with everyday items. Robotics experts point to this combination of perception and task flexibility as one of its core strengths. Additionally, the robot is powered by LG’s proprietary AI algorithms, allowing it to learn household layouts and preferences over time.
