LG Electronics Shares 'Innovation for a Better Life' With Future Robotics Talent From 185 Countries
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LG Electronics said on the 8th that it will sponsor the '2026 FIRST Global Challenge,' which will be held at Songdo Convensia in Incheon.
The competition will run for four days, from the 7th to the 10th, and youth representative teams from 185 countries around the world will take part this year.
LG Electronics will operate a separate booth during the event and plans to introduce future robotics technologies and LG Electronics' robotics vision.
LG Electronics announced on the 8th that it will sponsor the '2026 FIRST Global Challenge,' which will be held at Songdo Convensia in Incheon. The competition will run for four days, from the 7th to the 10th.
The FIRST Global Challenge is an international youth robotics competition hosted by the U.S. nonprofit foundation FIRST Global since 2017. This year's event will bring together youth representative teams from 185 countries around the world.
This year's theme is 'Igniting Innovation.' Participating teams will complete missions with robots they design and build themselves and work to solve problems through collaboration among countries. Participants will explore ways to use robotics to prevent and restore damage from wildfires, which have emerged as a global issue amid climate change.
The competition is designed so that participants carry out a range of missions in an environment that recreates the process of wildfire occurrence, suppression, and recovery using robots and solutions they have built themselves. The goal is to solve problems in the wildfire response process, and participants will compete and collaborate by developing technical ideas.
LG Electronics will operate a separate booth during the event. The booth will introduce future robotics technologies and LG Electronics' robotics vision, while global youth visitors will be able to take photos with the humanoid robot LG Q9 and interact with LG Q9 at a booth featuring a model barbell. The model barbell symbolizes bold challenges, and LG Electronics will support participants in experiencing robotics firsthand and creating special memories from the competition.
LG Electronics will produce content capturing the challenge, cooperation, and growth of participants at the event. It also plans to introduce the stories of young people through global channels and digital platforms, and share the innovative spirit of the next generation with customers around the world.
LG Electronics said the focus of this sponsorship plan goes beyond introducing robotics technology and is on giving the next generation hands-on experience in tackling global problems. The plan is also aimed at helping the next generation build experience in cooperation across national and regional boundaries.
This direction is linked to LG Electronics' effort to foster its robotics business by combining a robotics platform, robotic intelligence, and data capabilities. LG Electronics is pushing ahead with its robotics business as a future growth engine based on physical AI, and is expanding the business into home robots from industrial and commercial robots.
LG Electronics is securing manufacturing and development capabilities for key robot components such as actuators and strengthening its robotics competitiveness across the board, from components to finished products. Recently, it has been operating LG Data Factory, a large-scale data collection and management system for robot learning and operation, and through its operation is accelerating the securing of core technologies to improve robot autonomy and usability.
LG Electronics is drawing up a strategy to accelerate the advancement of RFM (Robot Foundation Model) by linking data collected from Data Factory and elsewhere with NVIDIA robotics solutions. RFM (Robot Foundation Model) is the model that determines robot performance, and LG Electronics aims to become a robotics total solution provider with both hardware and software capabilities.
Kim Hyo-eun, head of brand management at LG Electronics, said the company will support contributions to solving global problems based on the innovative and challenging spirit of future generations. He also expressed its determination to spread the value that a better life and a better future for the planet can be created through differentiated technologies such as robotics.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
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