AI-Powered Robot That Can Do Dishes Unveiled

LG Electronics (LG) has unveiled LG CLOiD™, an AI-powered home robot that will make its first public appearance at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, from January 6-9, 2026. Designed to perform and coordinate household tasks across connected home appliances, CLOiD aims 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 home robot is designed to naturally engage with and understand the humans it serves, providing an optimized level of household help,” said Steve Baek, president of the LG Home Appliance Solution Company. “We will continue our relentless efforts to achieve our Zero Labor Home vision, making housework a thing of the past so that customers can spend more time on the things that really matter.”

Demonstrating Household Automation in a Real-World Home Setting

At CES 2026, the company will show LG CLOiD operating in diverse home environments. In one scenario, the robot retrieves milk from a refrigerator and places a croissant into an oven to prepare breakfast. After household occupants leave, LG CLOiD initiates laundry cycles and folds and stacks garments after drying. These tasks display LG CLOiD’s ability to understand the user’s lifestyle and precise appliance control.

Hardware Designed for Operation in Living Spaces

LG CLOiD consists of a head unit, torso with two articulated arms and a wheeled base equipped with autonomous navigation. The torso can tilt to adjust its height, enabling the robot to pick up objects from knee level and above.

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.

The wheeled base uses autonomous driving technology derived from LG’s experience with robot vacuums and the LG Q9. This form factor was selected for stability, safety, and cost-effectiveness, with a low center of gravity that reduces the risk of tipping if a child or pet makes contact.

LG CLOiD’s Head as a Mobile AI Home Hub

The head functions as a mobile AI home hub. It is equipped with a chipset, which functions as LG CLOiD’s brain, 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.

Vision-Based Physical AI: VLM and VLA

At the core of LG CLOiD is the company’s Physical AI technology, which combines:

Vision Language Model (VLM) — converts images and video into a structured, language-based understanding

Vision Language Action (VLA) — translates visual and verbal inputs into physical actions

These models have been trained on tens of thousands of hours of household task data, enabling LG CLOiD to recognize appliances, interpret user intent, and execute context-appropriate actions such as opening doors or transferring objects.

Integration with ThinQ and ThinQ ON

LG CLOiD’s capabilities expand significantly through its integration with LG’s smart home ecosystem, including the AI Home Platform “ThinQ™” and Hub “ThinQ ON.” This seamless connectivity allows LG CLOiD to orchestrate a wider range of services across LG’s various appliances.

LG Actuator AXIUM: Robotics Components for Physical AI

Alongside the home robot, LG is introducing LG Actuator AXIUM™, a new brand of 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.

LG has accumulated world-class component technology through its market-leading home appliance business. This expertise in component technology is expected to be the foundation for delivering key competitive advantages in actuators, such as lightweight and compact design, high efficiency, and high torque. In addition, LG’s modular design technology enables customizing multi-variety production that is necessary for manufacturing advanced robots, which require dozens of types of actuators.

Roadmap Toward AI-Driven Homes

LG plans to continue developing home robots with practical functions and forms for housework. 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.

Visitors to CES 2026 can experience the tangible benefits of LG CLOiD and the Zero Labor Home through a variety of real-life scenarios at LG’s booth (#15004, Las Vegas Convention Center).

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