LG Electronics is building a new Data Factory in Seoul where robots can repeatedly perform tasks, generate training data and improve their capabilities, as the company ramps up its robotics business.
Located at LG’s Yangjae R&D Campus, the facility is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2026. It will span four floors, including one basement level, with a total floor area of 10,000 square meters and enough space to accommodate several hundred robots.
The Data Factory features environments designed to replicate real-world settings. In one area, LG’s self-developed CLOiD home robots practice household cleaning tasks. Another space replicates LG’s washing machine plant in Tennessee, allowing robots to practice moving, stacking. and assembling parts.
LG Innotek will also use a dedicated area to train robotic hands, while robots are being deployed in LG CNS logistics automation solutions.
Data collected from these activities will be integrated with NVIDIA’s robotics technologies, including NVIDIA Omniverse, Cosmos and Isaac. LG said the data can be augmented and synthesized to create additional training material for robots.
By the end of 2026, LG expects data collected directly at the Data Factory, combined with synthetically generated and augmented data, to reach 100,000 hours—equivalent to roughly 12 years of data.
LG plans to use this growing dataset to advance its Robot Foundation Model, which supports the capabilities of its humanoid robots. The company describes the process as a “data flywheel,” where high-quality data is continuously collected and used to train and improve robots.
The Data Factory is part of LG’s broader push into robotics. The company recently established a dedicated Robotics Business Center that reports directly to the CEO and oversees its companywide robotics operations.
LG said it aims to combine its manufacturing expertise, robotic components and growing pool of robot-learning data to develop both hardware and software as it expands from industrial and commercial robots into the home.
