LG Electronics to establish control tower for robotics business

LG Electronics said Tuesday it will establish a robotics business center to consolidate its capabilities in robot commercialization, manufacturing and other parts of the robotics supply chain. According to the company, the new organization will report directly to CEO Lyu Jae-cheol and be headed by Song Si-yong, who previously held senior leadership positions at the company's Production Engineering Research Institute. LG Electronics carried out an organizational restructuring solely to establish the new organization, which will begin operations on Wednesday. The company said the center will operate as “an end-to-end business organization” covering business development, sales and operations. It will also have a dedicated data factory organization, so that it can secure data factory capabilities promptly to collect high-quality operational data and advance LG’s robot foundation model. As part of this strategy, LG Electronics said it is building a large-scale data factory at its Yangjae R&D Campus in Seoul, with operations set to begin this year. LG Electronics said it expects the centeWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times