Social RoboticsCES 2026 brings a crowd of AI companion robots and LG's CLOiD
Engadget's round-up found robot pets for children and adults alongside a slow but ambitious household humanoid from LG.
CES 2026 featured an unusually large number of companion robots. They included Yonbo, a dog-like robot for children with storytelling and a parental monitoring mode, Sharp's meerkat-shaped Poketomo for adults in Japan, the Bibo AI toy, the penguin-like OlloBot and Zeroth's small M1 humanoid companion. LG demonstrated its CLOiD home humanoid folding laundry and fetching drinks, though the demo was slow and LG made no commitment to sell it. Taken together, the show suggested that consumer electronics firms see emotional companionship as a market of its own, even while useful household humanoids remain some way off.
Source: Engadget
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