June 8, 2026
Oil, ads, and android attitude
Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea
Nvidia and LG want robot helpers, but commenters smell spy gadgets, ad bots, and chaos
TLDR: Nvidia and LG are teaming up to build smarter robots and AI-powered factories in South Korea, including home robots meant to help with daily tasks. Commenters were deeply skeptical, joking about ad-spouting robot butlers, spying appliances, pointless humanoid designs, and huge maintenance and power headaches.
Nvidia and LG just announced a big partnership in South Korea to build the brains, training systems, and factory tools for a new wave of robots — including humanoid home helpers. On paper, it sounds futuristic: smarter factories, delivery systems run by data, and household robots that can learn in virtual practice worlds before entering your home. LG wants these machines helping with chores, while Nvidia supplies the heavy computing muscle to train them and simulate real-life situations.
But in the comments? Absolute side-eye. The loudest reaction was not "wow, the future" but "why does anyone even want a human-shaped robot?" One commenter bluntly argued that a dishwasher works because it’s shaped like a dishwasher, not a person. Another asked the question haunting the whole thread: if Hyundai already owns Boston Dynamics, why is LG the one making the robot power move?
Then came the darker jokes. One reader accused LG of turning home appliances into surveillance machines, imagining robot assistants as just another way to vacuum up data. Others went full comedy mode, picturing a robot butler forcing you to sit through an ad pitch before making coffee. And a practical crowd piled on with concerns about dirt, maintenance, planned obsolescence, and how much power these bot armies could consume. The result: less "welcome to tomorrow" and more "great, now my appliances might judge me, sell to me, and need a cooling system".
Key Points
- •NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to support LG businesses in robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services.
- •The collaboration combines NVIDIA’s AI factory, robotics and digital twin technologies with LG’s manufacturing, electronics and infrastructure capabilities.
- •LG Electronics plans to use NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab and potentially Isaac GR00T to develop and validate home robots such as CLoiD.
- •LG Electronics is building a physical AI data factory using NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models for synthetic data generation and augmentation.
- •LG affiliates including LG Innotek and LG CNS will contribute robotics components, sensing solutions and industrial robot platform integrations, while LG Electronics also works on DSX-aligned AI factory infrastructure and cooling systems.