Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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LG group uses it naturally for spying from data aggregated in home appliances. The rationale is fluff. A humanoid robot would demand continuous maintenance, especially after planned obsolescence kicks in. No robot has ever worked under dirt conditions.

htrp

why not hyundai (given the existing boston dynamics ownership)?

PowerElectronix

I can't wait to see the day I have to listen to the ad pitch of my robot butler before it goes make me a coffee.

trumpdong

There is no good reason to have a humanoid robot. None. Dishwashers do best in a dishwasher shape.

ck2

So every 1000 physical bots are going to need the power and cooling equivalent of those super-popular datacenters they are trying to build everywhere And I am virtually positive I know what the most popular application for them is going to become, the same way we've somehow decided to legalize gambling and drugs and make them available at a click to everyone everywhere BTW are people going to be able to hack them to commit crimes? Protest for them? But eventually everything is used for war to murder undesirables, we're only a decade away from the US or Israel etc. airdropping 1000 armed humanoid robots into a civilian space to hunt for "terrorists"

ksec

I have written this before, It is not AI with digital automation that worries me, generally speaking I think that is a good direction even thought we are still in early stage. It is Humanoid, that will change everything. While we are still someway off, if we had PC - > Internet > Smartphone > AI, what is after AI will be Humanoid. We still have another 4-5 years to go on current AI, and then Humanoid will further carry AI forward. This is similar to how Smartphone made the whole internet population 5 - 10 times bigger, further increasing demand on internet infrastructure. If anything, Apple should work on this. Perhaps the only thing that will be bigger than iPhone.

elil17

It is good to see someone finally working on one of these without the stupid legs (I think the legs are stupid because they give your robot the chance to fall over and are not relevant for most environments).

raincom

Nvidia needs to keep the hype train going, by throwing darts in every possible direction.

yalogin

We are going to be conditioned into thinking 20k-50k for a robot is ok to spend. The question is how long before get there

skeledrew

How did this "Physical AI" term originate? Isn't "robot" good enough anymore? Or "android" (though maybe that should be reserved for the really human-like machines)?

phyzix5761

I recently published an article on this topic titled The Next Big Leap: https://arkvis.com/blog/2026-06-05_the-next-big-leap.html

Danox

Does this mean Nvidia actually has an actual working operating system? If so, what are they waiting for? And why do they need Microsoft? For their latest Arm venture.