LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August.
LG will show a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of next year. The company signed an agreement with Nvidia at its Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August, with LG Corp chairman Kwang Mo Koo and Jensen Huang both present.
Nvidia is supplying the thinking parts. The robot runs Jetson Thor for onboard processing and motion control, uses the Isaac GR00T foundation model, and carries Halos, which Nvidia describes as the first full-stack safety framework built for robots.
LG is supplying the body, and that is the argument for why an appliance company belongs in this race. Actuators and sensors come from LG Electronics and LG Innotek, batteries from LG Energy Solution, so most of the bill of materials stays inside the group.
Something arrives before the humanoid does. LG will put CLOiD, its wheel-based robot, onto the production line at its washing machine plant in Tennessee by the end of 2026, feeding results into a data operation built on LG CNS’s PhysicalWorks platform that generates synthetic training sets alongside real ones.
The compute comes after. An AI factory reference site on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform is due in the first half of 2027, followed by an 80 megawatt facility at Cheonan in South Korea by the first half of 2028, with Nvidia’s DRIVE Hyperion platform going into LG’s vehicle work.
None of this makes LG special to Nvidia, which is the point. Nvidia is not backing a winner in humanoids, it is selling the same stack to every contender, and has already signed up Japan’s robotics establishment for its open world models.
It has been widening the roster deliberately. Nvidia has been courting manufacturers beyond China’s Unitree, which has been outselling Tesla on humanoids.
LG is not even alone at home. Samsung has set up a CEO-led robotics division chasing the same market, and Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics.
The safety layer is the part worth watching. Humanoids sharing floor space with people is the liability question the industry has never answered, and Huang framed the whole partnership around it, calling the opportunity of physical AI giving every machine the ability to “understand the real world, reason and act safely.”
Everything else here is dated 2027 or 2028. The only machine going to work this year is a robot on wheels in Tennessee.
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