This 3-foot-tall robot wants to be your kid’s classroom buddy and your mom’s new friend
Under $10,000. Ben Goertzel's new social robot Codey is shipping to classrooms and senior care this year.
Why it matters
A commercialized AI robotics product entering real-world deployment across education and healthcare verticals signals the shift from lab prototypes to mass-market social AI hardware—with significant implications for how enterprises integrate embodied AI into operations.
The key facts
11 to knowMind Children Robotics (co-founder: Ben Goertzel, AGI researcher)
Product: Codey, 3-foot social robot
Price point: under $10,000
Target verticals: classrooms, hospitals, senior care
Launch geography: South Korea pilots first
Timeline: 2026
Mind Children Robotics co-founded by Ben Goertzel
Product: Codey, child-sized social robot
Target markets: classrooms, hospitals, senior care
First pilots planned in South Korea
Seattle-area startup
Go to the source
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Publisher excerpt: Mind Children Robotics, a Seattle-area startup co-founded by AGI researcher Ben Goertzel, is building Codey — a child-sized social robot priced under $10,000 and aimed at classrooms, hospitals and senior care. The company plans its first pilots in South Korea.