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ROBOTNESS has published 14 stories about LG Electronics since Jan 6, 2026; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 1, 2026. Included: company announcements, regulator filings and reported rounds; estimates and sample rows are excluded, and undisclosed amounts are never estimated.

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Jan 6, 2026

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about LG Electronics

Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027
Date
Aug 14, 2026
Type
Partnership
Korea launches 50.4 billion won humanoid programme with KIST and three LG affiliates, putting solid-state batteries in robots
Date
May 18, 2026
Type
Research
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt
Date
Apr 29, 2026
Type
Business
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data
Date
Apr 2, 2026
Type
Research
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A

Headline	Date	Type
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act	Sep 29, 2026	Funding
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
LG and NVIDIA sign robotics pact; LG to unveil bipedal humanoid built with group parts in early 2027	Aug 14, 2026	Partnership
Korea launches 50.4 billion won humanoid programme with KIST and three LG affiliates, putting solid-state batteries in robots	May 18, 2026	Research
Doosan Robotics sets 2028 for an industrial humanoid after NVIDIA talks, then rebuilds its Europe base in Frankfurt	Apr 29, 2026	Business
Generalist's GEN-1 robot model reaches 99% success on trained tasks with about an hour of robot data, pretrained without any robot data	Apr 2, 2026	Research
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A

Data as of Oct 1, 2026

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