LG to build Korea's first humanoid 'data factory' to train robots

LG Electronics is converting its R&D campus in southern Seoul's Yangjae district into the country's first "data factory" for humanoid robots, industry sources said Friday.

At the facility, hundreds of its CLOiD machines will repeat everyday tasks to generate the real-world data that has become the hardest thing to get in the race to build capable robots.

The reason this matters is that data, not hardware, is increasingly the stall point for humanoid development.

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