LG is showing an AI-enabled robot crammed full of sensors at CES 2026 opening this week in Las Vegas. It will fold and stack laundry and grab milk from the refrigerator for breakfast, among other tasks.
It is the first public demonstration of the AI-enabled home robot called LG CLOiD. The company said it is designed to reduce time and physical effort in everyday household chores. LG did not indicate pricing or availability, but will be show LG CLOiD at Booth 15004 at the Las Vegas Convention Center this week.
LG Home Appliance Solution President Steve Baek said in a statement that the robot is designed to “naturally engage with and understand the humans it serves” part of a vision to make housework a thing of the past.
LG is powering the robot through its Physical AI technology that uses image sensors to convert visual and verbal inputs into physical actions. The company trained its robot models on tens of thousands of hours of household task data, so that LG CLOiD can recognize appliances and also interpret user intent and context-aware actions like opening doors or moving objects.
According to LG, the robot has a head unit, torso and two arms and a wheeled based powered by autonomous navigation so the torso can tilt to adjust height so the robot picks up object above knee level. Each arm has seven degrees of freedom to mimic the human arm and the shoulder, elbow and write allow forward, backward, rotational and lateral motion to handle a range of objects. The wheeled base relies on autonomous driving technology that LG gained with its robot vacuums and the LG Q9. It has a low center of gravity to help prevent tipping.
The head contains a chipset, as well as a display, a speaker, cameras, various sensors and voice-based generative AI, according to the company. The robot can communicate with humans through spoken language and facial expressions.
LG is also introducing LG Actuator AXIUM, a new family of robotic actuators for service and robots that acts as a robot’s joint.
Analysts see the arrival of home robots with AI as the beginning of a wave of greater interest in robots for more uses across not only consumer but industrial and medical uses.
The non-industrial robot market was sized at nearly $50 billion in 2023 and will grow by nearly 19% annually to $330 billion by 2034 according to Factmr.com and the International Federation of Robotics .Greater growth for home robots will begin in 2030 through 2034.
Juniper Research recently ranked physical AI and humanoid robotics among its top 10 emerging tech trends in 2026, saying it expects "substantial advances" in the next three years.