LG ELECTRONICS Inc said yesterday it inked an agreement with E-mart Inc, a retail giant in South Korea, to develop a new type of service robot that can assist shoppers at supermarkets.

BERLIN -- As part of efforts to expand its smart home business, LG Electronics will double its investment by 2020 including mergers and acquisitions of promising artificial intelligence tech firms, said Song Dae-hyun, head of the company’s home appliance and air solutions division Saturday.