https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/04/lgs-new-robots-deliver-food-and-double-as-shopping-carts/ >Robots are hard. Softbank has pumped a bunch of money into them, and the best it’s come up with so far is Pepper, a friendly humanoid that stands outside of stores and restaurants, tablet in-hand. LG announced this time last year that it was planning to move before vacuuming cleaners, into a wider world of robotics, and thus far, its own products have followed a similar route. >Last year’s ‘bots were focused on guiding passengers around the airport and cleaning up after them. A trio of new devices are set to make their public debut at CES next week seem to fill similar niches. The company offered a sneak preview of the robots, all sporting the name name CLOi, in a press release today.