LG and NVIDIA Partner to Develop Humanoid Robots and AI Factories

Following a memorandum of understanding signed on August 13, 2026, in Santa Clara, LG Corp. and NVIDIA have launched a broad collaboration to advance robotics, mobility, and industrial AI. The partnership centers on the development of a next-generation bipedal humanoid robot, powered by NVIDIA's Jetson Thor compute and Isaac GR00T foundation model, which is scheduled for public unveiling in the first quarter of 2027.

To support this development, LG Electronics is constructing a 10,000-square-meter Data Factory at its Yangjae R&D campus in Seoul. During meetings on August 18, the companies committed to generating 100,000 hours of robot training data by the end of 2026. This will be achieved through a hybrid pipeline combining real-world demonstrations from hundreds of robots, including LG CLOiD units, with synthetic augmentation using NVIDIA's Cosmos open world models.

The collaboration extends to industrial and automotive sectors. LG plans to deploy wheel-based CLOiD robots at a washing machine plant in Tennessee for validation by late 2026 and will build an 80 MW scale AI factory in Cheonan, South Korea, by the first half of 2028. Additionally, the companies are developing a high-performance computing platform for AI-defined vehicles using NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion to integrate autonomous driving with in-cabin AI services.