Madison Huang, the eldest daughter of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Nvidia’s senior director of marketing for Omniverse and robotics products, visited South Korea and LG Electronics today.
LG Electronics today invited key Nvidia representatives, including Madison Huang, to the LG Data Factory, currently under construction in Seoul’s Seocho District, South Korea, formerly the Yangjae R&D Campus, to discuss ways to create synergies. LG Electronics CEO Ryu Jae-cheol, LG CNS CEO Hyun Sinkyun, LG Sciencepark representative Jeong Suheon, and other senior executives from LG Group affiliates attended together.
Ryu Jae-cheol said: “By leveraging the synergistic effects of ‘One LG,’ which brings together the group’s core capabilities, as well as strategic partnerships with global partners, we will secure competitiveness in embodied AI and transform into a comprehensive robotics solution provider.”
Jensen Huang and LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo signed a memorandum of understanding at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on August 13 local time, covering cooperation in future strategic business areas. Just 4 days later, the two companies met again at the robotics data factory construction site, which has been interpreted as a sign that they will consolidate their robotics cooperation framework and accelerate commercialization.
According to South Korean media outlet The Asia Business Daily, representatives from both sides also confirmed the operating status of LG Electronics’ Yangjae Data Factory that day. The facility is being built with the goal of becoming fully operational within the year. LG Electronics is currently using the LG CLOiD, which it has independently manufactured and validated, to conduct data generation, collection, and training.
The Yangjae Data Factory consists of spaces for robots to learn a variety of tasks and for learning data to be validated and refined. The facility is not only a site for collecting embodied learning data for robots, but will also serve as an advanced hub for robot training data: data collected from LG Electronics’ manufacturing and logistics sites and home appliances worldwide will be expanded, synthesized, and enhanced.
In this process, Nvidia’s embodied AI technologies, including the Omniverse libraries, the Cosmos open-world model, and the Isaac open robotics development platform, will be used in data collection and application.