Before the humanoid arrives in 2027, LG is putting a robot on a Tennessee washing-machine line this year
LG and Nvidia signed a memorandum of understanding at Nvidia's Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August covering robotics, AI factories and vehicles. The headline is a bipedal humanoid built on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T foundation model, with Jetson Thor for onboard computation and Halos for Robotics as the safety layer, to be shown publicly in the first quarter of 2027. The nearer-term item matters more: before the end of this year LG will put CLOiD, its wheeled robot, onto the production line at LG Electronics' washing-machine plant in Tennessee for validation in a working factory, then expand to other global sites, homes and commercial spaces if it holds up. The data and the factory-floor experience from that deployment feed LG's own Robot Foundation Model, still in development. The agreement also covers AI factory build-out on Nvidia's DSX architecture with a Vera Rubin reference site, and a next-generation software-defined vehicle platform on DRIVE Hyperion.
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