LG CNS will bring a four-legged security robot to Tower Palace, the luxury residential-commercial complex in southern Seoul, marking the first time the company has moved its physical AI platform from factories and warehouses into a residential setting.
The IT services and digital transformation arm of LG Group signed an agreement on Wednesday with Tower PMC, a property manager that oversees roughly 100 high-end complexes, including Hannam The Hill, Acro Seoul Forest and Raemian One Bailey.
The two sides will run about two months of technical validation at the complex in the Gangnam area, with operations planned for the fourth quarter.
The robot is designed to patrol common areas and underground parking on its own, flagging suspicious behavior, falls, fires and abnormal heat from electric vehicles or charging stations to the management office. Managers can speak with the robot through two-way audio to assess a situation before responding.
At the center of the project is PhysicalWorks, the robotics platform LG CNS unveiled in May. It trains robots on site data and manages robots from different makers. LG CNS says PhysicalWorks can cut the time to field a robot from several months to one or two.
That platform, rather than the robot itself, is the product LG CNS is selling. The company positions itself as an integrator that trains, deploys and coordinates machines from various vendors, extending the systems-integration model it has long run in cloud and smart factories into the physical world. It has already applied PhysicalWorks in warehouse trials with Kurly and a logistics deal with LX Pantos.
The robot is the LYNX M20 Pro from Chinese firm Deep Robotics, a hybrid wheel-legged model that rolls on wheels over flat ground and switches to its legs for steps and thresholds.
"This partnership is a meaningful case of physical AI creating customer value in a real living environment, and we will keep expanding AI robot services in which different robots perform real tasks and work together," said Myung Chang-guk, who heads LG CNS' smart logistics and robotics business.
mjh@heraldcorp.com