CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOid, that it claims will revolutionize household chores (as in, you won\u2019t have to do them anymore).<\/p>\n
CLOid is described as an AI-powered home robot, designed to assist its user with a wide variety of domestic tasks \u2014 from folding laundry to making breakfast to patrolling a home for signs of trouble. The company says that<\/a>, eventually, it envisions the device \u201cevolving into an\u00a0ambient-care agent\u00a0that supports everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n The bot was announced during LG\u2019s keynote earlier this week, but it was also available for inspection via rolling presentations on the convention room floor. I went to check one out, where I saw the bot, alongside a human presenter, performing a variety of tasks for an enthusiastic audience.<\/p>\n CLOid has autonomous movement, so it can get around by itself, and comes equipped with a variety of cameras and sensors that, when paired with LG\u2019s smart home ThinQ app<\/a>, can leverage situational and environmental data to make proactive suggestions for how to make its user\u2019s life better, LG says. <\/p>\n The bot also has speakers so it can communicate with its user. LG says that CLOid runs off a vision language model that converts \u201cimages and video into structured, language-based understanding\u201d and a vision language action program that can convert verbal commands into action (you know, like Siri).<\/p>\n The last few years have seen the introduction of a number of domestic robots, including Amazon\u2019s Astro<\/a> and Enabot\u2019s EBO X<\/a>. CLOid follows in their footsteps but seems designed for a broader array of domestic tasks than its predecessors. Unlike Astro and EBO (which are little more than squat, rolling automatons), CLOid has a large upper body and two arms \u2014 a physicality clearly designed to lift stuff and interact with its environment.<\/p>\n You\u2019d think that would lead to some impressive results, right? Unfortunately, at the presentation I saw, CLOid didn\u2019t do a whole lot. I saw the bot very gingerly take a shirt out of a basket and place it into a dryer. I also saw it pick up a croissant and (again, very gingerly) place it into an oven. In addition to the live performance from the bot, the presentation was intercut with highly produced videos of the bot in a number of hypothetical scenarios where it might prove useful to potential users. <\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco CLOid was cute, and seemed affable enough, but the biggest thing you notice is how slow it is. During Tuesday\u2019s presentation, when his human counterpart asked CLOid to make him some breakfast, the robot trundled over to the refrigerator, waited for the automatic door to open, and then stared into the fridge\u2019s depths for an uncomfortably long period of time before ultimately selecting milk.<\/p>\n Yes, even the most lethargic human would likely win in a race against CLOid. However, speed isn\u2019t really the issue here. The idea is to make sure that the bot\u2019s human companion doesn\u2019t have to do any work at all. It\u2019s part of what LG refers to as its \u201cZero Labor Home<\/a>\u201d model, where automation takes care of all of those boring but essential domestic chores. You can be off brushing your teeth or answering a call from your boss while the bot is in the next room, prepping pancakes. That\u2019s the idea, at least.<\/p>\n From the available presentation, it\u2019s a little unclear when that idea will become a reality. I was unable to find out if and when the bot would actually be available to the public. A disclaimer at the bottom of the presentation\u2019s videos read: \u201cProducts and solutions shown in this video are under development and not been released for commercial use, thus specifications may vary.\u201d <\/p>\n An on-site LG communications staffer told me that CLOid would be available in the future, but she didn\u2019t know when. I reached out to LG\u2019s Home Solutions team for more information.<\/p>\n Thus, like a lot of other robots on display at CES, CLOid felt a little more like an ad for its company\u2019s potential than an accurate representation of what it is currently offering. The bot also seemed well positioned to help market LG\u2019s new AI home ecosystem, which represents a broader array of impressive smart home products, the bulk of which seem like easier lifts for consumers than a new robot in their home. <\/p>\n I got a brief tour of some of the latest editions of those products. In addition to the return of the LG Wallpaper<\/a> (having spent a few minutes staring into its insanely thin but beautifully hypnotic surface, I can safely say I want one), the company had a variety of appliances<\/a> on display this week, including an AI-powered oven that can identify particular ingredients and recommend recipes for you, and an AI refrigerator that you can talk to. All of these devices are supposed to synch with CLOid and are controllable via the company\u2019s ThinQ app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOid,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,175770,184516,191813,8583,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-396908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ces","12":"tag-ces-2026","13":"tag-home-robots","14":"tag-lg","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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