LG Display Turns Heads With RoboCop-Style OLED Humanoid

LOS ANGELES—LG Display usually sells panels for TVs, monitors, and phones. But the Korean manufacturer also sees potential in bringing its bendable display tech to robots. At SID Display Week here today, it showed off a robot head concept outfitted with an OLED screen. 

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LG Display calls it a “Humanoid Display.” The curved screen stands out by wrapping around the robot’s face, making it look a bit like RoboCop.

The concept uses LG’s P-OLED tech, which can produce thin, flexible screens. At the show, the company demoed a rotating snapshot of potential functions, such as displaying a greeting, battery life status, the weather, and whether the robot had flipped into sleep mode. 

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The other selling point is P-OLED’s durability. According to LG, the panel can operate in temperatures as low as -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degree Fahrenheit) to as high as 85 degrees Celsius (185 degrees Fahrenheit).

A growing number of companies are developing humanoid robots for work and at home. LG says its P-OLED tech can be applied to other body parts and function as a touch screen. But the screens cost more than conventional OLED.  

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P-OLED isn’t just for robots, though. The company has often touted it as a solution for creating curved car displays. This could include placing P-OLED panels as drop-down screens from a car’s ceiling. In a demo at the show, LG had it showing movies and conducting video calls. 

For PC users, LG also revealed it’s developing new 13- and 16-inch OLED panels for laptops that consume less power, prolonging battery life. Compared with a conventional OLED panel, the 16-inch screen is “thinner and lighter while improving power efficiency, extending battery usage by up to 2.3 hours, and significantly enhancing portability,” the company says. But for now, the displays remain in pre-production.

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