LG Electronics is building a 33,000-square-meter "Robot Data Factory" at its Yangjae R&D campus in Seoul to generate physical training data for its humanoid robots.
The facility begins full operation in July. LG will deploy its dual-arm humanoid, LG CLOiD, scaling to several hundred units inside the facility by the end of the year. The company plans to invest hundreds of billions of won into the project by 2030, with LG Electronics CEO Lyu Jae-cheol visiting the site weekly to oversee progress, according to Seoul Economic Daily.
The center functions as a physical simulation environment. LG is building mock residential spaces and appliance production lines inside the campus. To mirror exact factory conditions, the company is importing transport carts from its manufacturing plant in Tennessee. The robots will perform tasks like picking up and assembling objects to generate real-world behavioral data.
The collected data will train LG's Robot Foundation Model (RFM). LG aims to correct current humanoid hardware limitations, such as slow movement speeds, through large-scale physical repetition.
Why it matters: Generative AI models rely on scraped internet text, but physical AI requires actual behavioral data. Following its mass production of robotic actuators in the first half of the year, LG is building a controlled pipeline to generate the proprietary physical data necessary to make dual-arm robots functional in real homes and factories.