NVIDIA Visits LG Robot Training Center... The War to Secure Data

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LG and NVIDIA are accelerating their collaboration in the humanoid robot business. Just four days after CEO Jensen Huang and Chairman Koo Kwang-mo signed a business agreement, Jensen Huang's daughter visited LG's robot training site.

Reporter Jeong Seong-jin.

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Following human hand movements, a humanoid robot sorts items and lifts heavy steel plates.

This is the data factory being built by LG Electronics in Seoul, a so-called robot training center.

Madison Huang, a senior director at NVIDIA Physical AI who handles product strategy and is the daughter of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, visited the site.

This comes just four days after Jensen Huang and LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo met in the United States to sign a business agreement for Physical AI cooperation.

The robot training center is the culmination of the robot alliance between LG and NVIDIA.

The structure involves LG providing robot bodies and data from manufacturing and logistics sites, while NVIDIA provides robot brain software and synthetic data technology to accumulate robot data, thereby advancing physical AI technology.

The volume of robot data expected to be secured through this method by the end of this year is projected to reach 100,000 hours, equivalent to about 12 years' worth.

[Park Ki-bum / LG Electronics, Head of LG Data Factory: Through the combination of high-quality data secured by LG Electronics in the field for decades and NVIDIA solutions, we will complete a world-class data virtuous cycle system.]

While large language models like ChatGPT can utilize vast amounts of already accumulated documents and images for learning, physical AI requires generating new actual robot behavioral data.

China is already operating dozens of robot training centers across the country backed by government support and private companies, and robot companies in the U.S. and Germany are also building data training centers.

[Han Jae-kwon / Professor of Robotics, Hanyang University: Physical AI ultimately requires data on human movement. A competition is now underway over how to secure that data.]

Strengthening cooperation with NVIDIA while securing independent technological capabilities is cited as a key task for South Korean companies to preempt the physical AI market, projected to reach 1 trillion dollars in a decade.

(Video Report: Cho Chang-hyun | Video Editing: Choi Jin-hwa | Design: Jang Sung-beom | Footage provided by: NVIDIA)
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