Mind Children introduces Codey, a social robot for the loneliness epidemic
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-16
What happened: MSN coverage (published early October 16) of Codey, a humanoid developed by Mind Children and pitched as a social robot rather than a labor robot, aimed at the loneliness epidemic.
What's genuinely new: If Mind Children is the "Mind" already on the record — the Doug Field hire of October 12–14, framed around industrializing factory robots — this is the company's first named product in the record, and it lands in a lane (companionship, not labor) far from the industrialization story the hire coverage centered. The capture does not confirm the company identity, so the clustering stays hedged rather than asserted.
Watch: Confirmation of the company's relationship to the Doug Field hire, Codey's hardware and pricing, and any deployment or pilot detail beyond the loneliness framing.
Links: MSN