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LG teams up with Nvidia, Google to develop home robots
LG Electronics will deepen partnerships with Nvidia and Google as it pushes further into home robotics, executive Lyu Jae-cheol said in a LinkedIn post. He noted the company has accumulated nearly 70 years of lifestyle data from home appliances and customer service.
LG acquired Bear Robotics last year and works with its affiliate Robostar to strengthen industrial and professional service robotics capabilities.
Lyu said the company is expanding investments in Figure AI and collaborating with the Chinese humanoid company, AgiBot to accelerate software and hardware development.
He added LG is using Google Gemini for contextual understanding and Nvidia’s Isaac Platform to train and test robots in digital twin environments.
According to Lyu, the roadmap begins with commercial and professional service robots and will evolving home appliances into robotic solutions to orchestrate the home.
🔗 Source: Chosun Daily
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LG adds Bear Robotics to deepen software skills
- LG is buying a majority stake in Bear Robotics to gain software expertise for “software-defined robotics” 1.
- LG will move its commercial robot business, built around LG CLOi Robots, into Bear Robotics. Bear Robotics will run as a subsidiary, with its CEO staying in the role 2.
- LG wants one software platform across its robot lineup, from commercial units to home models, to cut development time 3.
- TechCrunch pegged the deal at about a $600 million valuation for Bear Robotics. It fits LG’s wider robotics push alongside its LG Home Appliance Solution (HS) Company, which brought in KRW 26.13 trillion in revenue in 2025 4, 5.
LG focuses on a shared robotics platform
- LG plans an open robotics platform, similar to how Android became a standard in phones, according to Bear Robotics’ CEO 1.
- LG will release a software development kit (SDK) for its Self-driving AI Home Hub (project name: Q9). Outside developers can build apps that run on top of LG’s system 2.
- The platform push puts LG in competition with robot makers like Samsung, plus smart home players such as Amazon and Google 4.
- LG CEO William Cho described a “Zero-labor Home” with a central orchestrator. LG aims to expand past hospitality and logistics delivery robots into home robots, including Q9 3.
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