LG Corp and NVIDIA have signed an expanded memorandum of understanding at NVIDIA's Santa Clara headquarters, cementing a partnership that stretches across humanoid robotics, factory automation, AI factories and future mobility platforms.
The Deal
Announced on 13 August 2026, the pact commits LG to unveiling a next-generation bipedal humanoid in Q1 2027 built on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, the vendor's open foundation model for humanoids. The robot will run on NVIDIA Jetson Thor edge compute and NVIDIA Halos for Robotics, tapping "One LG" component supply from LG Electronics, LG Innotek and LG Energy Solution for actuators, sensors and batteries.
Factory And AI Compute Rollout
Beyond the humanoid, LG will deploy its wheel-based CLOiD robot on a live washing-machine production line in Tennessee before the end of 2026 — putting a US-built LG factory floor into pilot for physical AI. LG will also build an NVIDIA Vera Rubin-powered AI factory reference site in the first half of 2027 and use NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion for an AI-defined vehicle computing platform.
Why It Matters
The MoU is another datapoint in the accelerating GR00T rollout that has drawn in the likes of Apptronik, DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2, and Honda's Avatar. For NVIDIA, LG becomes the first mega-conglomerate to bundle GR00T, Jetson Thor, DRIVE Hyperion and the Rubin-generation AI factory into a single multi-year rollout — a template Jensen Huang is likely to replicate with other Korean and Japanese partners.
The Signing Room
Present in Santa Clara: LG Corp Chairman and CEO Kwang Mo Koo and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The optics — a Korean chaebol chairman shaking hands with Huang on a US factory rollout — mirror the industrial-policy leverage now flowing from Washington and Seoul to Silicon Valley chip and robotics vendors.
Reporting based on coverage from PR Newswire, Unite.AI and The AI Insider.