A Human Interface for the AI Age

The world is deploying AI faster than humans can adapt to it. Screens and voice assistants have hit a ceiling. They're useful, but they don't build trust, they don't read a room, and they can't meet people where they are emotionally. For industries like hospitality, healthcare, and education, where human connection is the whole point, a chatbot simply isn't enough.

This is the moment a new interface gets built. Every era of computing created one. The PC put a mouse and screen on every desk. The smartphone put a touchscreen in every pocket. The AI age is different, because the technology is no longer a tool we operate. It behaves more like someone we interact with. An intelligence that talks, reasons, and responds needs a presence that can do the same. It needs a face, a voice, eyes that meet yours, and a physical form that can share a room with you.

What We're Building

We are building the interface for the AI age. A social humanoid robot that gives AI a body and a face, so it can step out from behind the screen and into the real world. Not a machine that performs tasks on a factory floor, but a presence that people can talk to, trust, and relate to. The kind of interface that makes the most powerful technology of our time feel human.

Our first prototype is MC1, a social humanoid robot designed for real human environments. We've named the Seattle prototype Codey, and Codey's Korean counterpart is named Joy. They each have their own unique personalities and are designed to grow and evolve with their surroundings. Our robots communicate through voice, facial expression, gesture, and eye contact, the same channels humans use to build trust. This is important because the human brain processes facial expressions faster than conscious thought, making the human face our oldest and most efficient interface. We're not building robots for warehouses or factories. We're building them for the places where people need to feel seen.

The Market

Hospitality, healthcare, and education represent some of the largest and most labor-intensive sectors in the global economy. All three face acute staffing shortages and rising demand for consistent, high-quality human interaction. Social robotics is positioned to help carry that load in a way screens and software never could.

The momentum behind robotics as a whole is significant. In a base-case scenario, McKinsey estimates the general-purpose robotics market could reach about $370 billion by 2040, with top use cases including warehouse logistics, light manufacturing, retail operations, agriculture, and healthcare. We see a distinct opportunity inside that growth: robots built for human interaction rather than task automation. As the industry races to build robots that work, we are building the one people will actually want to be with.

Traction

We have initial prototypes running in both Seattle and Seoul, and our manufacturing groundwork in Korea gives us a credible path to production.

Codey drawing a crowd at the Humanoids Summit in Silicon Valley.

Getting robots in front of real audiences is a critical step in humanoid development, and we have already begun conversations with potential pilot customers to deploy our next iteration of prototypes. Most people have never seen a humanoid robot in person, so how we introduce them matters. Our early discussions focus on places people already visit for the experience, like event and exhibition spaces, where the audience arrives primed and the environment is controlled. This is a deliberate part of our strategy, not a research project. These are achievable steps that lead directly toward mass production.

Timing & Team

Mind Children was founded by a Chris Kudla and Ben Goertzel, two builders who approach the same problem from opposite ends, one from hardware and manufacturing, one from artificial intelligence.

Ben Goertzel (above) chatting with Codey in our robotics lab about the future of AGI.

Chris is a hardware engineer with a background spanning automotive, aerospace, industrial, and consumer product engineering. Ben is an AGI pioneer, the former Chief AI Scientist for Hanson Robotics, and founder of the SingularityNET Foundation. We came together through a shared belief that embodied AI should be built for people and aimed at the places it can do the most human good. Not to cut costs, not to replace workers, not to push more throughput, but to bring connection and care where people actually need it.

Behind Codey is a small engineering team with rare range. The architect of our social humanoid software platform brings years of hands-on experience building expressive social robots. Another came to robotics from a long career as a metal sculptor, and brings a sculptor's feel for the human side of the experience along with the code to back it. A third leads our robotic arm development and the navigation system that lets our robots move through real spaces. Together, the team carries deep expertise across AI, robotics, and hardware, a depth rarely found in a company our size.

This team has been building toward a specific moment, and that moment is now. AI has only just crossed the point where it can hold a real conversation, read context, and respond like a person rather than a search box. At the same time, the hardware to give it a body, sensors, actuators, compute, and the manufacturing behind them, has become affordable enough to build an expressive humanoid at a price people can actually reach. And while billions are pouring into robots built for labor, almost no one is building for connection. The intelligence is ready, the hardware is ready, and the part of the market that matters most is still open. That window is open now, and it will not stay open for long.

From Stage to Scale

The markets we are building for are among the largest in the world. Hospitality, healthcare, education, and senior care touch billions of people, and all of them are stretched thin. There are never enough hands, never enough hours, and the people who need attention most are often the ones who go without it. Senior care alone is one of the fastest-rising demands in every developed economy, and one of the hardest to staff. These are not niches. They are vast, essential parts of daily life where presence and attention are in short supply, and where a social robot can help carry the load.

That is the opportunity, and the way we capture it follows the same logic as our early traction, with each stage adding a clearer way the company earns.

We start where audiences are already gathered, event and exhibition spaces. Here deployments double as both a paid pilot and a public proving ground, refining the product in front of real people while bringing in early revenue.

From there we expand into the environments where connection is the whole point: hospitality, healthcare, education, and senior care. These are the places a social robot earns its keep, not by cutting costs or moving faster, but by making people feel seen and supported.

The long-term goal is the MC1 production line, an expressive humanoid built from day one for affordability and manufacturability. We sell each robot outright, and we design it to be modular, so owners can upgrade components as the technology advances rather than replacing the whole machine. In a market moving this fast, that gives owners a durable path forward and gives us a steady source of recurring revenue beyond the initial sale.

Each stage builds on the one before, from first public appearances to robots in homes and care settings around the world. The destination is the one we started with: embodied AI that reaches people everywhere, built for connection rather than profit margins.

Out of the Lab & Into the Field

This raise funds the next step in Codey's development: the transition from a delicate proof of concept into a rugged, field-ready prototype. Today Codey works, and works well, but in the controlled conditions of our lab. The funds we raise go toward the hardware and software that let Codey hold up to real environments and real audiences, day after day.

Codey being assembled for a demonstration.

At our minimum goal, we get a hardened version of Codey into the field, durable enough to operate reliably in the public settings where our early deployments begin.

At our maximum goal, we reach further, putting a more production-ready design into the field. That version does more than survive real conditions. It invites richer interaction from the people around it and gives us far more useful data on how people respond, which directly informs the MC1 design that follows.

Either way, the destination is the same. This raise takes Codey out of the lab and into the world, and turns what we have proven in private into something people can experience in person.

The Path to a Return

We are building Mind Children to lead a new category: social robots that give AI a face and a presence in the world. Our focus is on building real products, real deployments, and a company with lasting value.

If we succeed in that, a return for early investors follows. The most common path at this stage is acquisition, and as social and humanoid robotics matures, larger AI, robotics, and consumer-technology companies will be looking to acquire proven platforms and talent. A company that leads this category is exactly the kind they pursue. Our technology and IP may also create licensing opportunities along the way.

We are not building to be sold. We are building something valuable enough that, if the moment comes, the people who believed in us early share in what we have created. As with any early-stage company, the outcome is uncertain and there are no guarantees, so we encourage you to invest only what you are comfortable putting at risk.

Join Us

The AI age is arriving whether we shape it or not. The question is what it will feel like to live alongside it. A screen in every hand, or something that can look you in the eye and meet you as a presence in the room.

We started Mind Children to make sure it is the second one. We have built a robot that works, assembled a team that has done this before, and found the moment where the technology, the hardware, and the market are finally ready at the same time. What we are building now is the step from a prototype in the lab to a robot in the world.

This is your chance to be part of it from the start. Not as a spectator, but as one of the people who helped give AI a face. Join us.