Overview
- LG and Nvidia signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday at Nvidia's Santa Clara headquarters to cooperate on humanoid robots, AI factories and mobility.
- LG said it will unveil a next-generation bipedal humanoid in Q1 2027 that will run on Nvidia's Jetson Thor, be developed from the Isaac GR00T humanoid foundation model, and use Nvidia's Holoscan/Halos safety architecture.
- LG has set up a pilot production line in Changwon and has begun initial production work on the humanoid while operating hundreds of CLOiD robots in a Seoul data factory to collect training data.
- The partners published a roadmap that includes a physical AI reference site planned for H1 2027 and a planned 80-megawatt AI factory in Cheonan targeted for H1 2028 to train and validate robot foundation models.
- LG will supply core hardware through its affiliates—actuators from LG Electronics, sensors from LG Innotek, batteries from LG Energy Solution—and plans a Tennessee deployment of a wheeled CLOiD on a washing machine line by year-end to test real-world performance.