{"slug": "lg-humanoid-set-for-2027-debut-with-nvidia-ai-brain", "title": "LG humanoid set for 2027 debut with Nvidia AI brain", "summary": "LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo signed an agreement with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang at Nvidia's Santa Clara headquarters on Thursday, formalizing a strategic partnership in humanoid robots, AI factories, and autonomous driving. The first major outcome will be a bipedal humanoid robot based on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T foundation model, equipped with Jetson Thor and Halos for Robotics, slated for unveiling in Q1 2027. LG also plans to build an 80-megawatt AI factory in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, in the first half of 2028.", "body_md": "Koo, Huang team up to deepen ties in humanoids, AI factories and autonomous driving\n\nLG is accelerating its push into robotics, teaming up with Nvidia to unveil its first bipedal humanoid robot early next year.\n\nLG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo traveled to the US to sign an agreement with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, formalizing their strategic partnership in humanoid robots, AI factories and autonomous driving, the conglomerate said Friday.\n\nThe agreement was signed Thursday at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, about two months after Koo and Huang met in Seoul in June to discuss deeper cooperation in physical AI.\n\n\"As our collaboration accelerates, the areas where we can work together in AI factories, physical AI and mobility have become clear,\" Koo said. \"We will accelerate the adoption of AI by building industry-leading reference models.\"\n\nHuang said that Nvidia's years of collaboration with LG would hasten the next era of robots, AI factories and autonomous vehicles.\n\n“The defining opportunity of physical AI is to give every machine the ability to understand the real world, reason and act safely alongside people — reshaping everyday life from the home and factory floor to the road,” Huang said,\n\n“Building on years of collaboration, LG and Nvidia are combining LG’s leadership in product engineering and manufacturing with Nvidia technology to accelerate the next era of robots, AI factories and autonomous vehicles.”\n\nThe first major outcome will be a bipedal humanoid robot based on Nvidia's Issac GR00T foundation model, which LG aims to unveil in the first quarter of 2027.\n\nLG said the robot will be equipped with Nvidia's Jetson Thor computing platform and Halos for Robotics safety architecture. LG affiliates will provide key hardware components, with LG Electronics supplying actuators, LG Innotek sensors and LG Energy Solution providing batteries.\n\nActuators function as the joints and muscles of a robot, enabling precise movement of its arms and legs. LG Electronics has set up a pilot production line at its plant in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, and has begun initial production.\n\nDuring their meeting, Koo also presented Huang with a miniature version of LG’s upcoming bipedal humanoid. The two executives posed with the model, which bears their signatures, offering an early glimpse of the robot LG plans to unveil next year.\n\nLG is also moving to test robots in real manufacturing environments. By the end of this year, the company plans to deploy its wheeled CLOiD robot on a washing machine production line at LG Electronic's Tennessee plant.\n\nThe two companies will also cooperate on a physical AI data factory using LG CNS' PhysicalWorks platform, where data collected from robots will be used for training and validation, LG said. The data will also help advance LG's own robot foundation model.\n\nBeyond robotics, LG plans to build an AI factory combining Nvidia's DSX structure with technologies from across the group, including LG Electronics' cooling systems. LG Energy Solution batteries and data center design and operation capabilities from LG CNS and LG Uplus.\n\nA reference site based on Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform is scheduled for the first half of 2027, followed by an 80-megawatt AI factory in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, the in the first half of 2028, LG said.\n\nThe Korean electonics giant said the Cheonan facility would use prefabricated modular construction to cut construction time by more than 20 percent, and would be used to train physical AI systems, including robot foundation models.\n\nIn mobility, the companies will jointly develop a high-performance computing platform for AI-defined vehicles based on Nvidia's Drive Hyperion platform, combining Nvidia's autonomous driving technology with LG's in-vehicle infotainment and automotive software capabilities, LG added.\n\nLG has been stepping up its robotics push ahead of the humanoid launch. The company unveiled its home robot CLOiD at CES 2026 in January and established a CEO-led Robotics Business Center in June. It is also operating hundreds of CLOiD units at a new robot data factory in Seoul to collect training data and advance its own robot foundation model.\n\nherim@heraldcorp.com", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lg-humanoid-set-for-2027-debut-with-nvidia-ai-brain", "canonical_source": "https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10841656", "published_at": "2026-08-14 05:30:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 05:36:50.237615+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "autonomous-vehicles"], "entities": ["LG Group", "Koo Kwang-mo", "Nvidia", "Jensen Huang", "LG Electronics", "LG Innotek", "LG Energy Solution", "LG CNS"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lg-humanoid-set-for-2027-debut-with-nvidia-ai-brain", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lg-humanoid-set-for-2027-debut-with-nvidia-ai-brain.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lg-humanoid-set-for-2027-debut-with-nvidia-ai-brain.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lg-humanoid-set-for-2027-debut-with-nvidia-ai-brain.jsonld"}}