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IFA is Europe's largest home appliance exhibition and is held every year in Berlin.
(Berlin = Yonhap News) Reporter Kang Tae-woo = Berlin Mayor Stephen Evans visited the LG Electronics exhibition hall at 'IFA 2026', Europe's largest home appliance exhibition, which opened on the 4th (local time).
Mayor Evans visited the LG Electronics exhibition booth with Berlin City officials, including German Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and National Modernization Carsten Bildberger and IFA CEO Leib Lindner, to directly experience LG Electronics' expanded 'AI Home' ecosystem.
At the entrance to the exhibition hall, we watched the 'LG AI Orchestra' performance conducted by the home robot 'LG Cloyd' and then looked around AI home appliances, AI Home Hub, and AI Home Platform.
At this IFA, LG Electronics exhibited about 150 products, including home appliances and TVs, and introduced a variety of 'Fit & Max' product lines targeting the European market that values space efficiency and energy efficiency. In addition, 'ThinQ Claw', which strengthens the autonomous AI agent function of the next-generation AI home hub 'LG ThinQ On', was also unveiled for the first time.

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