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CES is always chock-full of robots, and this year electronics giant LG announced a new bot, dubbed CLOiD, that it claims will revolutionize household chores (as in, you won’t have to do them anymore).

Robots still struggle with the unpredictable ways that fabric crumples and creases. But newer approaches offer the hope of better robotic household help. peepo/Getty Images More than 60 years ago, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At CES 2026, we put the robots to the test to see whether they’re ready for real homes — or still stuck in demo ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Roughly 2,000 investors, entrepreneurs and others attended a Mountain View summit that showcased robots that ...

CLOiD, LG's robot butler, was unveiled on the CES show floor. We saw it do some light baking, laundry folding and milk fetching. David Watsky Managing Editor / Home and Kitchen David lives in Brooklyn ...

Less than two years since it was founded, San Francisco-based startup Weave Robotics is accepting pre-orders for its first home robot, which promises to do one thing well: fold your laundry. The Isaac ...

This summer, I found myself in the strange position of watching a humanoid robot try to load laundry. It squatted beside a washer-dryer unit, reached with one hand into a laundry basket that it was ...