LG sends wheeled robots to a Tennessee line this year, humanoid waits until 2027
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- LG will deploy its wheeled CLOiD robot by the end of 2026.
- The first bipedal humanoid will not be unveiled until the first quarter of 2027.
- LG will build an AI factory reference site and an 80-megawatt facility.
LG plans to deploy its wheeled CLOiD robots on a washing machine production line at its factory in Tennessee by the end of 2026.
The company said Friday that the bipedal humanoid it is building with Nvidia won’t go on public display until the first quarter of 2027.
A Changwon pilot line is already building the robot
LG intends to roll out the wheeled CLOiD unit on a production line for washing machines at LG Electronics’ Tennessee plant by the end of this year. It will be tested in an actual manufacturing environment.
The outcome of that run will guide future iterations and a wider rollout to other plants, homes, and commercial buildings, LG said.
The company is planning to unveil its first humanoid bipedal model in the first quarter of 2027. The machine will run on the chipmaker’s open foundation model for humanoids, Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T.
The companies made it official Thursday at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters, where LG Corp. Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang inked the deal.
Koo also gave Huang a signed miniature of the robot, an early glimpse of hardware that has not yet been built at full scale.
LG Electronics will supply the actuators that act as the machine’s joints and muscles, LG Innotek will provide sensors, and LG Energy Solution will handle the batteries.
LG is deploying Nvidia’s Jetson Thor platform for onboard computing and control, and Nvidia’s Halos safety system for robotics.
The company has set up a pilot line at its Changwon plant in South Korea and begun early production, indicating the 2027 unveiling is a public debut.
LG and Nvidia will operate a physical AI data factory on LG CNS’ PhysicalWorks platform, feeding information from the working robots back into training and testing.
Modular construction cuts the Cheonan build time by over 20%
The LG announcement also mentions AI data centers and vehicles.
LG aims to build a reference site for the AI factory on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform in the first half of 2027 and an 80-megawatt facility in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, by the first half of 2028.
Prefabricated modular construction will reduce build time by more than 20% at the Cheonan site. On the automotive side, the two will build an AI-defined vehicle computing platform based on Nvidia’s DRIVE Hyperion.
In October 2025, Cryptopolitan reported that Foxconn intends to use humanoids powered by Nvidia at its server plant in Houston.
Chinese manufacturers such as Unitree already sell units for about $16,000, beating American rivals on price.
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