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MEKAWIRE has published 28 stories about LG Electronics since Dec 31, 2024; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

Data as of Oct 13, 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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Dec 31, 2024

Latest story

Oct 1, 2026

Stories about LG Electronics

Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
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
Singapore opens a humanoid robot centre for police and emergency work, aiming to put a robot beside officers by 2028
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
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
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
Date
Mar 31, 2026
Type
Business
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch
Date
Mar 24, 2026
Type
M&A
Korea opens bidding for a 9.7bn won humanoid robot safety certification centre in Daegu
Date
Mar 23, 2026
Type
Policy
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move
Date
Mar 16, 2026
Type
Product
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes
Date
Mar 12, 2026
Type
Funding
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
NVIDIA brings Blackwell robot brains down to $1,999 with Jetson T4000 and opens GR00T N1.6 and Cosmos Reason 2 at CES
Date
Jan 5, 2026
Type
Product
LG enters the robot joint business with its AXIUM actuator brand as the CLOiD home robot makes its CES debut
Date
Jan 4, 2026
Type
Product
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work
Date
Sep 15, 2025
Type
Funding
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike
Date
Jul 29, 2025
Type
Product
Doosan Robotics pays $27.2 million for 89.59% of Pennsylvania integrator ONExia to sell US packaging cells built around its arms
Date
Jul 28, 2025
Type
M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028
Date
Apr 10, 2025
Type
Policy
LG Electronics takes 51% of Bear Robotics and hands it the CLOi service robot business, four weeks after Samsung moved on Rainbow
Date
Jan 24, 2025
Type
M&A
Samsung takes 35% of Rainbow Robotics for 267.5 billion won and puts a humanoid office under its CEO
Date
Dec 31, 2024
Type
M&A

Headline	Date	Type
Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
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
Singapore opens a humanoid robot centre for police and emergency work, aiming to put a robot beside officers by 2028	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
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
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the 107 cm Sprout humanoid, less than two months after the robot's launch	Mar 24, 2026	M&A
Korea opens bidding for a 9.7bn won humanoid robot safety certification centre in Daegu	Mar 23, 2026	Policy
NVIDIA previews GR00T N2, betting robots should predict video before they move	Mar 16, 2026	Product
Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes	Mar 12, 2026	Funding
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
NVIDIA brings Blackwell robot brains down to $1,999 with Jetson T4000 and opens GR00T N1.6 and Cosmos Reason 2 at CES	Jan 5, 2026	Product
LG enters the robot joint business with its AXIUM actuator brand as the CLOiD home robot makes its CES debut	Jan 4, 2026	Product
Dyna Robotics raises US$120 million Series A from Robostrategy, CRV and First Round to scale its DYNA-1 robot foundation model into paid laundry and restaurant work	Sep 15, 2025	Funding
Skild AI unveils the Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model it says can drive quadrupeds, humanoids and arms alike	Jul 29, 2025	Product
Doosan Robotics pays $27.2 million for 89.59% of Pennsylvania integrator ONExia to sell US packaging cells built around its arms	Jul 28, 2025	M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028	Apr 10, 2025	Policy
LG Electronics takes 51% of Bear Robotics and hands it the CLOi service robot business, four weeks after Samsung moved on Rainbow	Jan 24, 2025	M&A
Samsung takes 35% of Rainbow Robotics for 267.5 billion won and puts a humanoid office under its CEO	Dec 31, 2024	M&A

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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