HumanoidsHome chore robot prototype
CLOiD
CLOiD is a prototype home robot from LG with a head and two arms with five-fingered hands. LG says it is meant to do a wide range of household chores and to control home appliances. The Korea Times, 29 Dec 2025
- Evidence
- No customer evidence yet
- Human help
- Not disclosed
- Last milestone
- 5 Jan 2026
01Can I get it?
Not yet
- Where it works today
- Not on sale. LG has shown it only as a prototype and has not said when it will reach homes. Dezeen, 6 Jan 2026
- Published price
- No published price in our sources.
- Human help
- The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
02Track record
What has actually happened
Every milestone is dated and links to the page it comes from. Lines marked company-reported rest on the maker's own word.
03Safety and incidents
What has gone wrong
No crashes, recalls or regulator reports in our sources. That is not proof none happened; we add them when a regulator or trusted outlet reports one.
How we placed it
The rule, not an opinion
Stages are worked out by published rules from the dated milestones above. We never rate robots, and no maker can pay to change a stage.
- 5
Regulator-cleared or mass market
A regulator has cleared it where approval applies: FDA clearance or approval for a medical robot, a permit to run with no one aboard for a self-driving vehicle, or an FAA approval for routine drone flights. Or: Widely sold: sales in the hundreds of thousands, or a product category you can buy in ordinary shops.
- 4
Paying customers
Delivered to customers who pay for it, beyond a trial, or a paid service the public can use.
- 3
Pilot
Working with a named customer in a real setting, as a trial.
- 2
Pre-orders
Orders, reservations or deposits taken, with nothing delivered yet.
- 1
Demo onlyThis robot
Shown in videos, staged events or a factory, with no units working for customers.
No pre-order, pilot, paying customer or clearance is on record yet.
What we couldn't confirm. LG has given no price, sale date or home trial plan that we could confirm. A secondary site reported LG planned a real-world feasibility test 'next year' (2027), but we could not find the original report.
Sources
- 01The Korea Times, 29 Dec 2025
- 02Dezeen, 6 Jan 2026
- 03Korea JoongAng Daily, 6 Jan 2026
- 04Engadget, 26 Dec 2025
Cite this page
Robotics Verdict. “CLOiD (LG Electronics): how far has it got?” roboticsverdict.com/robots/lg-cloid. Checked 19 October 2026.