LG Electronics is solidifying its partnership with Nvidia in robotics and strengthening cooperation to build a physical AI ecosystem.
Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics, said on the 26th via LinkedIn, "LG Electronics and Nvidia have made the strategic partnership and areas of collaboration more concrete through additional talks in the United States." Lyu said the two companies are specifically discussing ways to create synergy in areas such as building the LG data factory using the Nvidia platform, advancing AI data center cooling solutions, and establishing a mass-production system for LG robots.
LG Electronics highlighted data accumulated at customer touchpoints worldwide and its manufacturing capabilities as differentiators through its smart home platform "ThinQ." Lyu said, "LG Electronics secures sophisticated manufacturing data from 31 production facilities in 14 countries, and the accumulated manufacturing and production data over the past 10 years alone amounts to 770TB (terabytes)." That is enough capacity to store about 197,000 high-definition movies.
Experience interacting with people, accumulated across diverse spaces such as homes, commercial spaces, industrial sites, and mobility, is also cited as a competitive edge. Lyu said, "LG Electronics is a corporations that has designed and operated diverse spaces for decades while maintaining touchpoints with customers," adding, "We have built a deep understanding of customers' lifestyles and device usage patterns, movement paths within spaces, and energy use."
Component business competitiveness and manufacturing capabilities were also mentioned as key differentiators. Lyu said, "LG Electronics is a corporations with a technology ecosystem capable of realizing the future envisioned by AI," adding, "In AI infrastructure, we support the establishment of efficient and stable AI operating environments through next-generation cooling solutions and AI data center technology cooperation." He added, "Together with global leaders like Nvidia, we will connect AI to customer value and industrial innovation and turn the new possibilities of the physical AI era into reality."
Earlier this month, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met at LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, Seoul, and discussed strengthening partnerships across the AI ecosystem, including joint development of reference (development standard) robots, and on the 22nd, senior executives from key LG Group affiliates visited Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, United States, to discuss follow-up cooperation plans.