LG CNS Accelerates Physical AI Commercialization with Strategic Investment in US Robotics Company

LG CNS announced on March 10 that it has made a strategic investment in the US robotics company DEXmate, becoming the first Korean company to do so. This investment was made through LG’s corporate venture capital arm, LG Technology Ventures, with the goal of strengthening the competitiveness of humanoid robot hardware optimized for industrial sites.

DEXmate, based in Silicon Valley, is a company specializing in the development of humanoid robots. According to LG CNS, DEXmate’s robots are recognized for their quality and performance, to the extent that they have been adopted as standard research hardware by leading global robot brain developers.

LG CNS training Dexmate humanoid robots to be deployed in industrial sites. A photo combining an actual shot with an AI-generated virtual factory background. LG CNS

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DEXmate’s robots feature a wheel-based lower body, two arms specialized for high-speed tasks, and a head equipped with vision sensors to detect the surrounding environment. The key characteristic is the application of wheels instead of legs, enabling stable, long-duration operations while maintaining the work capabilities of humanoid robots. This design allows for deployment across a range of industrial environments, including logistics centers and manufacturing plants.

Notably, the robots are capable of precise bimanual cooperative tasks based on more than 36 degrees of freedom. Each arm can support a load capacity of approximately 15 kilograms, and the robot can operate for over 20 hours on a single charge.

With this investment, LG CNS has expanded its robot hardware lineup to include not only bipedal humanoids and quadrupedal robots, but also wheel-type humanoids. Based on this, the company plans to offer a "Full-Stack RX Service" that packages the three core elements essential for commercializing humanoid robots: hardware, the Robot Foundation Model (RFM), and the operational learning platform.

Lee Junho, Executive Vice President and Head of Smart Logistics & City at LG CNS, stated, “This investment is a strategic move by LG CNS to organically integrate robot hardware, the RFM, and platforms, enabling large-scale robot operations and accelerating their deployment in industrial settings. We aim to go beyond technology validation and demonstrate business models for humanoid robots that can be immediately applied in real-world environments, thereby leading the era of physical AI.”

Meanwhile, LG CNS is not only developing its own platform for robot operation and learning but is also expanding partnerships and investments to advance its robotics business. In June last year, the company invested in the US-based robot brain developer Skilled AI to further enhance industry-specific RFMs. Additionally, LG CNS is conducting numerous proof-of-concept (PoC) projects involving robots trained on data from logistics, distribution, and manufacturing sites.

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