In summary:
- LG unveiled its Cloid AI-powered household robot at CES 2026, designed to perform domestic tasks like making breakfast and folding laundry using advanced Physical AI technology.
- Tech Advisor reports that Cloid features a humanoid design with articulated limbs and integrates with LG’s ThinQ smart home platform for comprehensive household automation.
- Early demonstrations revealed slow operational speeds, suggesting the robot may need refinement before becoming a practical consumer solution with unknown availability timeline.
LG has unveiled its new AI-powered household robot, LG Cloid, at CES 2026. The robot is part of the company’s vision of a home where household chores are handled entirely by intelligent machines.
The robot’s “Physical AI” combines two technologies: VLM (Vision Language Model), which interprets images and video into understandable information, and VLA (Vision Language Action), which converts visual and linguistic input into physical actions.
Instead of a full humanoid, the robot consists of a head, torso, two articulated arms and five-fingered hands. These are sat on a wheeled base which can autonomously navigate like a robot vacuum cleaner and the low centre of gravity helps to avoid it falling over.
LG says the torso can tilt to adjust its height so it can pick up objects. For example, Cloid can make breakfast, start the washing machine and fold clothes by interacting with LG’s smart home platform ThinQ and ThinQ ON.
However, The Verge reports that the whole process is slow and that it takes about 30 seconds just for Cloid to put a single towel in the washing machine.
It is currently unclear whether Cloid will be available for purchase on the consumer market.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and adapted from Swedish.
Author: Viktor Eriksson, Contributor, Tech Advisor
Viktor writes news and reports for our sister sites, M3 and PC för Alla. He is passionate about technology and is on the ball with the latest product releases and the hottest talking points in the consumer tech industry.