Minjoon Seo of Config: teaching robot AI to learn from human behavior

Forbes Korea profiles founder and CEO Minjoon Seo on Config's core thesis: unlike LLMs trained on the open internet, robots lack real-world behavioral data, so Config films people performing everyday manipulation tasks — folding clothes, picking up objects, pouring liquids — and converts the footage into robot training data.

The piece details Config's Hanoi data factory, where roughly 300 workers wear cameras while performing daily tasks, generating more than 100,000 hours of data since operations began in late 2025. It frames the CFG-1 foundation model as the "basic education" robots receive before companies fine-tune it with their own industrial data.