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LG Electronics Expands NVIDIA Robotics Partnership to Advance Physical AI
LG Electronics is expanding its robotics collaboration with NVIDIA at LG's Data Factory at the Yangjae R&D Campus in Seoul to accelerate work on physical AI and robot learning.
The initiative follows an August 13 memorandum of understanding between LG Group and NVIDIA for strategic collaboration on future businesses. LG said the companies reconvened four days later to review robotics cooperation and accelerate commercialization.
LG's Data Factory, scheduled to become fully operational by year-end, is designed to generate, validate and refine robot-learning data. It includes replicated home and manufacturing environments where LG CLOiD robots practice cleaning, moving, stacking and assembling components.
Data generated across LG facilities will connect with NVIDIA technologies including NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, NVIDIA Cosmos open world models and the NVIDIA Isaac robotics development platform, supporting physical and synthetic robot-training workflows.
LG describes the approach as a "data flywheel" combining decades of manufacturing and logistics information with continuously generated robot-learning data to improve physical AI systems.
The four-floor, 10,000-square-meter facility is expected to house several hundred robots by the end of 2026. LG projects that collected and synthetically generated training data will reach 100,000 hours by year-end, equivalent to roughly 12 years of data.
LG plans to use the data to advance its Robot Foundation Model (RFM), which supports humanoid robot performance. The company also established a Robotics Business Center in July 2026 to coordinate its robotics operations as it expands from industrial and commercial robots into home robotics.
Lyu Jae-cheol, CEO of LG Electronics, said:
"Through the synergy built on 'One LG' – bringing together core capabilities across the Group – and strategic collaboration with global partners, we will secure our competitiveness in physical AI and become a comprehensive robotics solutions provider."
