laundry
Folds laundry
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Not disclosed
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
Research record R-015Public demonstration
CLOiD
By LG Electronics · South Korea · announced January 2026
LG's laundry-folding home robot concept, star of CES 2026 and heir to the never-launched Q9.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
CLOiD is LG's home robot, presented at CES 2026 as the centerpiece of a 'Zero Labor Home': a wheeled robot with arms shown folding laundry and handling household tasks in booth demonstrations. It builds on the CLOi service-robot line and the Q9 AI-agent program, whose own planned 2025 Korea launch never visibly materialized.
LG announced no price and no release date, and the company's home-robot history counsels patience: the Q9 reached beta testing with a developer site and a Microsoft AI partnership, then went quiet as a consumer product. CLOiD is best read as LG's statement of direction, backed by real appliance-scale manufacturing should it ever commit.
Every capability shown so far is a trade-show demonstration.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Not demonstrated
None; CES demonstrations only
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
3 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Controlled demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
cleaning
Household tidying
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Not disclosed
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
conversation
Home AI agent conversation
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
Hardware record.
- Height
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Weight
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Locomotion
- Wheeled base
- Payload
- Household objects
- Runtime
- Not disclosed
- Charging
- Dock expected
- Top speed
- Household speeds
- Degrees of freedom
- Dual arms; figures unpublished
- Hands
- Grippers for laundry and household items
- Face / expression
- Friendly display face
- Sensors
- Cameras; ThinQ smart-home integration
Software record.
- AI platform
- LG AI stack with Q9 agent lineage; Microsoft AI partnership announced for Q9
- Voice
- Conversational assistant demonstrated
- Languages
- Korean, English demos
- Visual recognition
- Object recognition in demos
- Memory
- ThinQ household integration planned
- Processing
- Hybrid expected
- Autonomous abilities
- Laundry folding and chores shown in controlled booth demos
- Teleoperation
- Not disclosed
- Software updates
- Not applicable
- Developer access
- Q9 developer site exists (q9.developer.lge.com)
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Not disclosed
- Remote operation possible
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not disclosed
- Camera / microphone controls
- Not disclosed
- Data deletion
- Not disclosed
- Account required
- ThinQ account expected
- Emergency stop
- Not disclosed
- Children and pets
- Not disclosed
- Security updates
- Not disclosed
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Prototype
Q9 predecessor beta tests in Korea; consumer launch never confirmed
- Public demonstration
CLOiD presented at CES 2026 with laundry-folding demos
Source register
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