Most robotics companies are chasing industrial automation. Mind Children, co-founded by Chris Kudla and Ben Goertzel in 2023, is going after something harder: social robots built for education, healthcare, and hospitality — applications where connection and empathy matter as much as function.

Topics covered:

• Why Mind Children bet on social robotics despite a harder-to-prove ROI than industrial robots
• Cody's modular operating system — and what changes when you swap a standard LLM for SingularityNET's memory-equipped, agentic systems
• The hide-and-seek demo: how Cody reasons in real time and recalls the game a week later
• The emotional intelligence roadmap — teaching Cody to recognize and respond to human distress
• Why Mind Children avoids streaming classroom or hospital video data, and ...