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South Korean electronics firms expand robotics and AI

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In July 2026, LG Electronics established a dedicated Robotics Business Unit to commercialize robotics across industrial, commercial, and residential markets. A central component is the specialized Data Factory at the Yangjae R&D campus in Seoul, designed to generate operational data for LG’s Robot Foundation Model (RFM). Concurrently, Samsung Electronics launched its RX (Robotics eXperience) division and increased its stake in Rainbow Robotics to approximately 35%, aiming for AI-autonomous manufacturing by 2030. Following a memorandum of understanding signed in Santa Clara, LG has deepened its partnership with Nvidia to integrate LG’s hardware with Nvidia’s AI stack. This collaboration focuses on physical AI, AI infrastructure, and mobility. LG is developing a bipedal humanoid robot utilizing Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T foundation model and Jetson Thor platform, with a planned unveiling by the first quarter of 2027. To accelerate this, Nvidia senior director Madison Huang visited the Yangjae Data Factory in August 2026 to inspect the facility. The factory aims to create a “data flywheel” by integrating LG’s collected data with Nvidia’s Omniverse, Cosmos, and Isaac platforms, targeting 100,000 hours of training data by the end of 2026. The partnership extends to the automotive sector via AI-driven vehicle (AIDV) platforms and AI infrastructure, including an 80 MW AI factory in Cheonan due by early 2028. To support these growth strategies, LG held a ‘North America Tech Conference’ in San Francisco in late August 2026 to recruit high-level R&D talent from institutions such as Stanford and MIT. CEO Jaechul Ryu stated, “LG Electronics is a company where technical experts can grow into core leaders who lead the company’s future.” In September 2026, LG ~~announced~~ hosted ‘LG SPARK 2026’, an AI innovation festival at the LG Sciencepark in Magok, Seoul. The event featured the ‘LG Tech Fair’, showcasing 41 R&D technologies, and the ‘LG AX Fair’, presenting 68 cases of AI application in business. Global tech leaders including Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft participated in the ‘LG AI DevCon’. During the festival, LG AI Research showcased its ‘EXAONE’ model family, highlighting specialized ‘Expert AI’ solutions for manufacturing, finance, and science. Notable achievements included the ‘EXAONE Discovery’ model, which identified a hair loss treatment candidate in one day—a process that previously took 22 months. LG also announced plans to launch an ‘AI Autonomous Laboratory’ by the end of 2026 to automate new material development through combined AI and robotics.

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