Zero labor home: LG announces a two-legged smart AI agent

LG is making good on its promise of the “zero labor home”. At CES 2024, the company intends to launch its smart home AI agent as an essential part of that vision. Now household robots like the Enabot EBO X are certainly not mainstream (yet?), but LG is betting on such gadgetry to “reinvent the future” of home automation.

In a news release, LG announces that its bot is capable of understanding “context and intentions” via multimodal AI technology. The smart home AI agent is also equipped with the Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Platform which enables face and voice recognition, as well as natural language processing to enable it fulfill its role as an “all-round home manager”.

The design of LG’s bot caters to the role as a home companion. The AI agent is a two-legged, two-wheeled device with a visor that can potentially act as a screen. Attached to the body is a built-in camera, speaker and sensors to gather environmental data. There is no indication of the smart home standard used in the press release, but since LG is marketing this device as a “moving smart home hub”, it’s not too far fetched to hope it supports Matter just like a regular smart hub (the Echo Show 10, for example).

LG’s smart home AI agent will be on display at CES 2024 from January 9th – 12th at the Las Vegas Convention Center. 

I was fortunate to be exposed to the awesomeness of tech as a child. I delighted in seeking out the nerdiest sci-fi gadgets I could afford to play with. These days I take a professional interest in biotech, especially health-tracking wearables, and futuristic smart home appliances. If you ever come to Unilag’s College of Medicine, you’ll probably find me geeking about some biomedical discovery. That’s if I’m not scrolling YouTube shorts. Or sleeping.