LG and Nvidia formalise humanoid and vehicle-compute partnership

LG Group and Nvidia have signed a memorandum of understanding, reported on 14 August 2026, with a target of unveiling a next-generation bipedal robot in the first quarter of 2027.

LG plans to build a humanoid using Nvidia's Isaac GR00T foundation model and Jetson Thor platform. The partnership also covers wheeled robots and high-performance vehicle computing.

The tie-up brings together motors, mechanics, edge compute, simulation and robot foundation models. But it is pre-product: safety certification, task reliability, pricing and deployment scale remain unproven.