Chairman and CEO of LG Corp. Kwang Mo Koo visited the Nvidia office astatine Santa Clara, California, to motion a memorandum of knowing with CEO Jensen Huang. This memorandum focuses connected expanding the AI capabilities of some companies.
LG and Nvidia CEOs posing with a miniature humanoid robot
The headline-grabbing announcement is that LG plans to unveil a humanoid robot successful the archetypal 4th of 2027. This bipedal robot volition usage Nvidia’s Jetson Thor for on-board compute and the Isaac GR00T unfastened reasoning humanoid instauration model.
The Nvidia Jetson Thor offers 2,070 TFLOPs of compute
Less futuristic but possibly a batch much applicable is LG CLOiD – a wheeled robot that the institution volition deploy successful its washing instrumentality manufacturing enactment successful Tennessee aboriginal this year.
The extremity is to usage the manufacturing enactment arsenic a proving crushed for the robot wherever it volition amended its capabilities. Once the robot becomes bully capable to beryllium adjuvant astatine that factory, the institution plans to bring it to planetary accumulation facilities. LG sees a aboriginal for CLOiD successful factories, commercialized spaces and adjacent successful people’s homes.
LG is besides gathering a notation AI information halfway to beryllium acceptable successful the archetypal fractional of 2027. It volition beryllium based connected Nvidia’s Vera Rubin. The institution volition past leverage the acquisition gained from the notation information halfway to physique an “LG AI Factory” successful Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, by the archetypal fractional of 2028. This 1 volition bring a monolithic 80 MW of compute online.
The extremity of the AI Factory is to let LG to bid its ain AI models to usage successful its robots. Additionally, the AI Factory volition service arsenic a showcase of what LG tin bash – the institution wants to connection validated, turnkey bundle solutions for anyone other who wants to physique a monolithic AI information center.
This is portion of the “One LG” strategy and volition propulsion from antithetic members of the LG household – the AI Factory volition usage batteries, sensors and actuators from the likes of LG Energy Solution, LG Innotek and LG Electronics.
Nvidia Drive Hyperion
LG is getting into self-driving vehicles excessively – it volition physique the adjacent procreation of AI-Defined Vehicles based connected Nvidia’s Drive Hyperion and it volition integrate specified capabilities into LG-made in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems.
The extremity is to supply planetary OEMs with hardware that integrates self-driving and in-cabin AI services.
By the way, rival Samsung precocious launched a Robotics eXperience division to physique humanoid robots, mill robots, robotic hands and more. And, of course, the institution is large successful automotive electronics (through its Harman subsidiary).
Kwang Mo Koo, Chairman and CEO of LG Corp., said, “As our discussions person moved fast, our tasks and goals successful AI Factory and Physical AI person go clear. We volition accelerate the dispersed of AI by gathering industry-leading references.”
Jensen Huang, laminitis and CEO of Nvidia, said, “The defining accidental of carnal AI is to springiness each instrumentality the quality to recognize the existent world, crushed and enactment safely alongside radical — reshaping mundane beingness from the location and mill level to the road. Building connected years of collaboration, LG and NVIDIA are combining LG's enactment successful merchandise engineering and manufacturing with NVIDIA exertion to accelerate the adjacent epoch of robots, AI factories and autonomous vehicles.”
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