What is a Zero Labour Home – and how does LG see the future? Domestic robots

Rosie, Jarvis, Marvin. All three of them successfully made life a little less tedious by assisting humans maintain a home/lair/spaceship, by taking the drudgery out of routine tasks.

Now LG are about to showcase its new domestic robot, the LG CLOiD at this month’s CES 2026 in Las Vegas Nevada, an event billed as the “Most Powerful Tech Event in the World”

LG are describing their new home assistant robot, not as Douglas Adams did of “Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with” but instead as “designed to perform indoor household tasks, helping enhance everyday convenience and improve quality of life by making home management more efficient and intuitive”

The robot is aligned with their vision of a “Zero Labour Home, Makes Quality Time” future where mundane tasks such as daily chores are assigned to the likes of humanoid and non-humanoid robots. They have established a HS Robotics Lab within its Home Appliance Solution Company to fast-track this objective.

A full suite of images is yet to be revealed but we do know that CLOiD possesses 2 articulated arms each with 5 individually articulated fingers allowing the robot to undertake delicate tasks that require fine motor control.

CLOiD’s “brain” is housed in the humanoid head as is the display, speakers, camera and sensors that LG claim will “enable expressive communication, natural voice interaction and intelligent navigation” but as to exactly how that navigation will be achieved is yet to be revealed.

LG says that “CLOiD is designed to sense its surroundings, interact in a natural and user-friendly way and refine its responses over time through repeated interactions – aiming to provide more personalised support for everyday tasks” so maybe he/she will actually be that plastic pal who’s fun to be with after all.

More details of CLOiD and other interesting developments will no doubt be unveiled when CES 2026 gets underway in the coming days