LG has unveiled ThinQ Claw, a new text-based AI assistant designed to interpret household patterns and seamlessly coordinate connected devices, signalling a significant leap in smart-home technology at IFA 2026.
LG has used IFA 2026 to show the latest version of its AI Home platform, placing a new text-based assistant called ThinQ Claw at the centre of its smart-home strategy. The system is designed to go beyond simple voice control or fixed routines, with LG saying it can interpret a user’s plans, household patterns and changing circumstances to recommend actions and coordinate connected devices.
ThinQ Claw works through a chat-style interface, allowing people to describe what they are doing or what they need in plain language. LG says the agent can then link tasks across appliances and services, such as preparing kitchen equipment for guests, adjusting temperature and air quality before someone gets home, or suggesting settings based on remembered preferences. The company says the software is meant to become more useful over time as it learns likes and dislikes.
The wider AI Home platform is built around Homey, the smart-home system from Athom, which LG acquired in 2024. That choice underlines the importance of interoperability in a market where many households use products from several brands. LG is presenting Homey as the control layer for a broader ecosystem rather than a closed appliance-only environment, signalling an effort to position its software across mixed-device homes.
LG also showed an energy-management demonstration that connected smart meters, solar panels, home batteries and electric vehicle chargers with household appliances. According to the company, the system can help households manage when electricity is generated, stored and used, particularly in markets with dynamic pricing. That places LG’s software push within a wider industry move to tie consumer appliances more closely to home energy systems.
Beyond private homes, LG highlighted ThinQ Pro for multi-family residential and commercial settings, extending the same software approach into shared buildings and managed facilities. The company also said its Shield framework is applied across connected appliances, services and customer data within the AI Home ecosystem. LG did not give specific availability details for Australia and New Zealand, but said the announcement came from its headquarters in Korea. Baek Seung-tae, president of LG’s Home Appliance Solution Company, said ThinQ Claw marks “the next step in LG AI Home”, adding that the company will keep developing systems that are “increasingly intuitive and responsive to customers’ needs”.
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