LG Electronics has created an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered home robot as part of its “Zero Labor Home” vision.
The LG CLOiD is capable of handling daily tasks by integrating with connected home appliances. When connected to LG’s smart home system — specifically, the ThinQ platform and ThinQ ON hub — CLOiD can control and coordinate many LG home appliances and services together.
Source: LG Electronics
Some of the tasks that the robot can accomplish include retrieving milk from the refrigerator, placing a croissant in the oven, initiating laundry cycles, and folding and stacking garments after drying.
The robot is equipped with a torso, a head and two articulated arms, all of which are mounted on a wheeled base for autonomous navigation. According to its developers, the torso can tilt to adjust its height, thus enabling it to pick up objects from knee level and above.
Further, each of CLOiD’s arms has seven degrees of freedom (7 DoF), similar to a human arm, while each hand has five independent fingers that enable the robot to carefully grip and handle objects. As such, CLOiD can work with several types of household items and perform tasks in the kitchen, laundry room and living areas.
According to its developers, the robot is engineered with a Vision-Language-Model (VLM) that converts images and video into structured, language-based understanding. The LG CLOiD is also outfitted with a Vision Language Action (VLA) model that translates visual and verbal inputs into physical actions.
Additionally, both of these models have been trained on tens of thousands of hours of household task data, which has enabled LG CLOiD to recognize appliances, interpret user intentions and execute appropriate actions, like opening doors or performing pick-and-place tasks.
