LG Group and NVIDIA have announced an expanded strategic partnership spanning physical AI and robotics, next-generation AI data center infrastructure, and autonomous driving systems. The agreement was formalized at a top management meeting in Yeouido, Seoul, attended by LG Corp. Chairman and CEO Kwang Mo Koo and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang alongside senior executives from multiple LG subsidiaries.
The partnership is structured around three areas – physical AI and robotics, AI factories, and mobility – with distinct roles across the LG Group’s subsidiaries in each domain.
Physical AI and Robotics
LG will combine its accumulated production technology data from global manufacturing sites with NVIDIA’s Isaac, Omniverse, and Cosmos AI and simulation platforms to build AI-driven manufacturing capability and autonomous factory infrastructure. The goal is an integrated ecosystem spanning raw material procurement, production, logistics, and customer delivery, connected in real time through data and AI.
LG and NVIDIA will cooperate on the development of NVIDIA’s next-generation GR00T robot foundation model, advancing capabilities across humanoid and logistics robots through coordinated work on data collection, simulation, training, and action systems.
LG Innotek will develop high-performance sensing modules and optical components for robots and NVIDIA AI infrastructure, leveraging its optical technology capabilities. LG CNS is integrating NVIDIA’s Isaac open robotics frameworks, Cosmos world models, and Isaac GR00T foundation models into its industrial robot platform PhysicalWorks, targeting AI transformation of logistics and manufacturing floors.
“Korea is extraordinary at manufacturing, mechatronics and AI, and the fusion of these strengths will make robotics and physical AI a major growth sector for the country,” said Jensen Huang. “With NVIDIA DSX and physical AI platforms, LG can extend its leadership from homes and vehicles to factories and AI infrastructure.”
AI Factory Infrastructure
LG Electronics will collaborate with NVIDIA on thermal management solutions for AI data centers, including coolant distribution units and cold plates, alongside prefabricated modular design technologies aligned with NVIDIA’s DSX reference design.
LG Energy Solution will develop 800V direct current-based data center power solutions with NVIDIA, targeting improved energy efficiency for next-generation AI factories. LG CNS plans to build AI data centers using the NVIDIA DSX AI factory reference design, while LG Uplus will build large-scale AI infrastructure using NVIDIA Rubin GPUs.
Autonomous Driving and Mobility
LG Electronics will advance next-generation ADAS systems by integrating its in-vehicle infotainment capabilities with NVIDIA’s DRIVE Hyperion autonomous driving platform. LG Innotek will develop automotive components for the DRIVE Hyperion architecture, including communication modules, sensing solutions, and automotive lighting systems.
AI Model Development
The partnership also covers LG’s EXAONE large language model. LG AI Research will use NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs alongside NVIDIA Nemotron, NeMo, and TensorRT-LLM to improve EXAONE training efficiency and inference performance. LG plans to expand adoption of NVIDIA-powered AI agents across the LG Group through its enterprise AI agent service ChatEXAONE.
The breadth of the agreement – spanning seven LG subsidiaries across robotics, data center hardware, automotive components, and enterprise AI – makes it one of the most comprehensive NVIDIA partnership announcements in the physical AI era, and the most significant formalization of a Korean industrial conglomerate’s alignment with NVIDIA’s ecosystem to date.
