Humanoid Robots Try Doing Laundry at CES

At CES 2026, humanoid robots from companies including LG (CLOiD), SwitchBot (Onero H1), Boston Dynamics, WIRobotics, and Zeroth were on display with demos that suggested household help was near — even for complicated chores like laundry. Advances in robotics and AI have made these machines smarter, but The Verge questions whether they’re capable enough for real homes rather than polished show-floor demos.

Laundry is one of the hardest household tasks to automate: collecting, sorting, loading, unloading, folding, and carrying involve many delicate, context-dependent steps. At CES many companies claimed their humanoids could handle at least parts of that workflow, with onstage demonstrations of bots loading washers and folding clothes.

The Verge sent senior smart-home reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy to the show floor to put those promises to the test. She spoke with robotics and home-robotics leaders — including the president of Roborock and the CEO of Zeroth — to probe whether humanoid household robots are an inevitable next step or mostly vaporware dressed up for CES.

Watch the video and decide: how much of your laundry would you actually hand over to a robot?

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