Nvidia's Isaac GR00T lands inside LG's bipedal robot while CLOiD works a real assembly line

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.

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