LG Electronics (Robotics)

Home-appliance giant with the CLOiD wheeled home robot and a GR00T-based biped due in 2027

Public · Pilot · Humanoid OEM · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea · Founded 1958 · 066570 (KRX) · lg.com

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LG showed its CLOiD wheeled home robot at CES 2026 and began producing test units in mid-2026 for data collection and use on its Tennessee washing-machine line. A bipedal humanoid built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T is due in Q1 2027. LG is also an investor in Figure and AgiBot.

People

• LJC
  Lyu Jae-cheol

  Chief Executive Officer

Source: LG Electronics CEO says new robot model to enable 'Zero Labor Home' vision (Yonhap) · As of Oct 8, 2026. X handles are shown only when we could confirm they belong to the person.

Flagship robots

• CLOiD Wheeled humanoid
  Home robot with two 7-DOF arms; test units in production
• Next-gen bipedal humanoid Humanoid
  Unveiling planned Q1 2027, built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T

Market & financials

Competitors

Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.

• Sunday Robotics

  Adjacent competitor

  USHumanoid startup

  Both are selling robots for the home: Sunday Robotics is building Memo, a wheeled two-armed household robot, while LG Electronics makes the CLOiD wheeled home robot.

  Sources (2)

  • LG Electronics (Robotics) (company website)
  • Sunday Robotics (company website)

• 1X Technologies

  Adjacent competitor

  USHumanoid startup

  Both are selling robots for the home: 1X Technologies sells the NEO humanoid for the home, while LG Electronics makes the CLOiD wheeled home robot.

  Sources (2)

  • LG Electronics (Robotics) (company website)
  • 1X NEO Home Robot (1X)

Recent news

• Aug 13, 2026 — LG to unveil next-gen humanoid built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T PR Newswire
• Jul 30, 2026 — Test CLOiD units in mass production for physical-AI data Seoul Economic Daily
• Jan 5, 2026 — CLOiD home robot at CES 2026 LG

Suppliers

• NVIDIA — Jetson Thor onboard computer; Isaac Sim, GR00T foundation models

Sources

• LG presents LG CLOiD home robot at CES 2026 (LG) (Jan 5, 2026)
• LG Electronics accelerates physical AI with mass production of test CLOiD (Seoul Economic Daily) (Jul 30, 2026)
• LG to unveil its next-gen humanoid robot, built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T (PR Newswire via Morningstar) (Aug 13, 2026)

Confidence: high.

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