LG debuts CLOiD home robot at CES 2026 with dexterous arms and appliance ecosystem integration
The South Korean electronics giant's most hardware-capable home robot features dual 7-DoF arms and five-fingered dexterous hands alongside integration with LG's existing appliance ecosystem; LG has also invested in Figure AI, AgiBot, and Dyna Robotics alongside its own development.
LG Electronics unveiled CLOiD, a home assistant robot, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas on January 6, framed around the company's "Zero Labor Home" positioning. CLOiD is designed to perform indoor household tasks and represents LG's most hardware-capable home robot to date.
The company and the context
LG has been developing service robots under the CLOi brand for nearly a decade, with deployed wheeled platforms in retail, restaurants, and hospitality. Its previous home-focused model, released in 2024, drew limited commercial traction and was widely described as capable of voice assistance and navigation but not physical task completion. CLOiD joins the CLOi lineup but departs from it in one significant way; where every prior CLOi robot is a wheeled platform without manipulator arms, CLOiD adds dual seven-degree-of-freedom arms and five-fingered dexterous hands powered by individual actuators.
LG has also invested in Figure AI, AgiBot, and Dyna Robotics to advance home robot safety and foundational AI modelling alongside its own development. The investment portfolio sits alongside an internal research programme; LG established the HS Robotics Lab within its Home Appliance Solution Company specifically to develop differentiated robotics technologies and core capabilities.
CLOiD's arms have seven degrees of freedom each, providing multi-directional movement. Both hands have five independently actuated fingers, enabling fine motor control for delicate and precise household tasks. The robot's head contains a dedicated chipset alongside a display, speaker, camera, and sensor array for navigation, voice interaction, and what LG describes as expressive communication.
CLOiD runs LG's Affectionate Intelligence platform, an adaptive AI system that learns from user behaviour and adapts responses over time rather than relying on fixed commands. LG describes it as an emotional model designed to enhance user comfort.
Beyond task execution, CLOiD is designed to sense users' moods, preferences, and daily routines through real-time data from LG products including televisions, appliances, and smart devices. The system is built to proactively adjust lighting and climate, recommend entertainment, and offer reminders based on contextual behaviour rather than only responding to direct commands.
LG demonstrated CLOiD at CES but has not announced pricing or a commercial availability date.
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