If you listen to the CES hype machine this year, you might think that robots are finally ready to take over your domestic duties. To some extent that's true, but take note of the plural: there's no single robot ready to take over all of your household chores yet, but an army of them just might. You might have had one of these single-purpose robots in your home for years already, of course.
CLOiD isn't the first laundry-folding robot we've seen, it's not even the only one at CES this year - SwitchBot's Onero H1 will also be able to tackle your hamper. LG's does seem particularly impressive, at least on paper. While the Onero looks like someone stuck some arms on Stop & Shop's Marty, CLOiD has two fully articulated arms with seven degrees of motion mounted on a torso that can tilt and bend.
This week, I've been reading about lotteries and Jennifer Lawrence and religious AI, shame-watching Finding Mr. Christmas, turning MyMind into my daily journal / commonplace book, learning a lot about Taylor Sheridan for some reason, letting James Hoffman teach me about cold brew, attempting to replace most of my laptop time with iPad Pro time, and trying my very best to not eat all our Halloween candy ahead of time. Friends, I did not succeed.