LG Builds Robot Brains, Samsung the Hands in Humanoid Race

LG is betting on training data and partnerships, targeting 500,000 hours of robot training data this year and a 10,000-square-meter Data Factory in Seoul by Q4. Samsung focuses on tendon-based precision manipulation and plans to test robots at its own semiconductor and appliance plants.

• LG raised its robot training data goal from 100,000 to 500,000 hours
• LG's 10,000-square-meter Data Factory in Yangjae opens in Q4
• LG plans a bipedal humanoid on Nvidia Isaac GR00T in Q1 2027
• Samsung tests robots in repetitive and hazardous factory processes