LG’s CLOiD Robot Tackles Housework with Vision-Led Physical AI

• CLOiD performs tasks like cooking and laundry using articulated arms, AI models, and autonomous mobility.
• Integrated with LG's ThinQ ecosystem, the robot adapts to home environments and coordinates connected appliances.

LG Electronics has unveiled CLOiD, its home robot that aims to help with daily chores. Announced at CES, the humanoid robot moves autonomously through kitchens, laundry rooms, and living spaces, using its arms and hands to carry out routine household tasks.

"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, in an official press release. "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."

CLOiD is built to work in everyday home spaces with a design focused on safe movements and handling household objects. It moves autonomously on a wheeled base with a low center of gravity, helping it stay stable around children and pets. Its torso can tilt to reach lower surfaces, while two articulated arms, each with seven joints and hands featuring five independently moving fingers, allow it to grasp and handle a wide range of household items. The head acts as the robot’s control hub, equipped with a screen, cameras, sensors, speakers, and voice-based AI to interact naturally with people in the home, including "facial expressions.

CLOiD uses LG’s Physical AI system, which includes its VLM and VLA models. These help the robot understand what it sees and hears, then turn that into real actions, like opening a door or picking something up. LG says that the system was trained on tens of thousands of hours of home task data, so CLOiD can recognize appliances and respond to what users want it to do. It also connects with LG’s smart home platforms, ThinQ and ThinQ ON, to work with other devices in the house.

Along with the robot, LG also introduced its Actuator AXIUM, a modular robotics component platform designed to support high-efficiency motion and adaptable form factors. The actuators underpin CLOiD’s manipulation abilities and reflect LG’s broader strategy for AI-driven homes. The company plans to expand its robotics technology to both “Appliance Robots” like vacuums and “Robotized Appliances” such as refrigerators with auto-opening doors.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

For a company built on appliances, turning them into autonomous, AI-driven systems is a natural evolution. CLOiD shows how LG is using its home appliance expertise to move from making tools people operate to building machines that do the work themselves.

Source: PR Newswire / LG