Nvidia expands LG partnership on humanoid robots and data centers

Jensen Huang used a Seoul stop to tighten Nvidia’s ties with LG Group, saying the two companies are working together on humanoid robots and the data centers that will power the next wave of artificial intelligence. After meeting LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, Huang said Nvidia and LG are collaborating on motor technology and mechanical systems for humanoid robotics and on “architecting the future data centers.”

The deal matters because it shows Nvidia pushing well beyond chips. The company is positioning itself as a supplier for the full AI stack, from the software and compute layers that train models to the physical infrastructure needed to run them at scale. Nvidia and LG said they are building an AI factory to speed LG’s next generation of AI-driven businesses, including robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services. Nvidia said the system will provide accelerated computing infrastructure to train, simulate, validate and deploy AI applications across LG’s businesses.

That makes LG a strategically useful partner. South Korea’s industrial base gives Nvidia access to a company that already sits at the intersection of consumer electronics, manufacturing and heavy infrastructure, while LG gains a deeper foothold in Nvidia’s AI ecosystem as robotics moves closer to commercial deployment. Nvidia’s January move to list LG Electronics among global partners debuting robots and autonomous machines built on Nvidia technology suggested the relationship was already moving past general partnership talk and into engineering work.

The Seoul visit also fit Nvidia’s broader outreach to South Korea’s corporate elite. Yonhap reported that Huang and Koo met at LG Group headquarters in Seoul on June 8, and that Huang also dined in Seoul on June 5 with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and Naver Chairman Lee Hae-jin. The sequence pointed to a wider effort to bind Nvidia more closely to Korean companies that are central to semiconductors, cloud services and industrial hardware.

LG has been preparing for that role. In its April earnings transcript, LG Electronics said it was expanding its traditional collaboration with Nvidia into a more strategic partnership around physical AI, with discussions covering robotics, AI data centers and mobility. LG’s business materials also emphasize cooling and power infrastructure for high-density workloads, including direct-to-chip cooling and other integrated thermal systems, a reminder that the next AI boom will depend as much on electricity, heat management and systems integration as on raw chip supply.