LG Electronics

A South Korean appliance giant building the home humanoid CLoiD and its AXIUM joint-actuator brand.

LG Electronics traces back to GoldStar, founded by In-hwoi Koo in 1958, is headquartered in Seoul, and is known for appliances and TVs. Its robotics business started years ago under the CLOi brand, for commercial robots such as guides and delivery units; in March 2024 it invested $60 million for a stake in Silicon Valley delivery-robot company Bear Robotics, raising its stake to a controlling 51% by January 2025 and folding CLOi's commercial-robot business into it. In January 2026 at CES it unveiled the wheeled home humanoid CLoiD and a joint-actuator brand called AXIUM, integrating a motor, driver, and reducer into one unit; that March its CEO told shareholders that 2026 would be “year one” of its humanoid-robot business, with plans to build out AXIUM's mass-production system within the year, first for use in CLoiD, and to supply it externally starting in 2027; reports say CLoiD will first be used for material handling in LG's own factories. In August, LG Group signed an agreement with NVIDIA, planning to launch a bipedal humanoid built on the Jetson Thor chip in the first quarter of 2027.

ExampleAt CES 2026, CLoiD was shown taking milk out of the fridge, putting a croissant in the oven, and folding laundry.

Also called

LGE, LG

Related

LG CLOiD · Joint Actuator Module · Household Tasks · Service Robot · Samsung Electronics · Consumer Electronics Show

Sources

LG Acquires Majority Stake in Bear Robotics to Bolster Robotics Capabilities（LG 官网） (Chinese)
LG's charge into humanoid robotics focuses on joints, eyes（The Korea Herald）
LG moves deeper into humanoid supply chain（The Korea Herald）
LG humanoid set for 2027 debut with Nvidia AI brain（The Korea Herald）

As of

2026-08