Korea's biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data

TechCrunch profiles Config as the data layer for the next generation of robotics. Rather than building robots itself, Config provides the high-quality training data that robot foundation models need to learn manipulation tasks — the bet being that data quality, not robot hardware, is the bottleneck for general-purpose manipulation.

The piece frames Config as "the TSMC of robot data": a backbone supplier whose data infrastructure underpins the broader physical-AI industry. Backing from Korea's largest manufacturers reflects a thesis that the country's industrial base is uniquely positioned to anchor the global physical-AI stack.