EP 72: Social Robotics 101: Building Robots That Understand You | Chris Kudla, Mind Children

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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…