LG Electronics and Nvidia plan to unveil a bipedal humanoid robot built on Nvidia’s robotics platform in the first quarter of 2027, according to a report by South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency citing LG statements on August 14, 2026. Yonhap
The collaboration marks a concrete step in the commercial race to field general-purpose humanoid robots by integrating LG’s component manufacturing scale with Nvidia’s physical AI computing stack.
Yonhap reported that the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang in attendance. The robot will be equipped with Nvidia’s Jetson Thor robotics chip module and will be developed on Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T humanoid foundation model and the Holoscan for Robotics safety framework.
LG plans to leverage capabilities from its key affiliates, using actuators from LG Electronics, sensors from LG Innotek, and batteries from LG Energy Solution, according to the Yonhap report. The cooperation will also extend into three additional areas: robotics, artificial-intelligence factories, and mobility.
Race to integrate Nvidia silicon
The news is the latest in a series of partnerships linking global robot makers to Nvidia’s Jetson Thor computing module. In a January 2027 newsroom release, Nvidia confirmed that LG Electronics is among the partners debuting new robots built on its technology, listing it alongside Boston Dynamics, Humanoid, NEURA Robotics, and others.
That same Nvidia announcement also launched the Jetson T4000 module for edge robotics, a $1,999 unit available in 1,000-unit volumes that delivers 1,200 FP4 TFLOPS. The underlying architecture is the Blackwell compute platform that powers Jetson Thor. Nvidia says Jetson Thor provides the compute needed for humanoid robots with reasoning, and the Isaac GR00T N1.6 model is a vision-language-action model purpose-built for humanoid robots. Nvidia Newsroom
Unanswered questions on capacity and cost
Neither LG nor Nvidia has published a specification sheet, pricing, or a production timeline for the humanoid. The Yonhap report describes the planned reveal as a debut, not a commercial launch, and no independent performance tests or manufacturing-volume commitments have been disclosed.
The August 2026 memorandum of understanding provides a framework for the partnership but does not bind the companies to a specific commercial product or delivery date beyond the planned Q1 2027 unveiling. Nvidia’s standard safe-harbor language in its press releases cautions that statements about partner plans and technology timelines are forward-looking and subject to change.
The announcement arrives as multiple companies race to field humanoids for logistics and manufacturing roles. Automatica Press reported earlier that competing developers, including Boston Dynamics and NEURA Robotics, have already integrated Jetson Thor into their existing platforms, a detail Nvidia also confirmed in its CES 2027 newsroom dispatch.