This 3-foot-tall robot wants to be your kid’s classroom buddy and your mom’s new friend

A prototype of Codey, a humanoid social robot developed by Seattle-area startup Mind Children Robotics. (Mind Children Photos) At a recent robotics event in New York, a young girl hid behind her mother when she first saw Codey. The robot broke the ice by complimenting the girl’s shirt, and 45 minutes later she was still there, taking Codey through the entire plot of Frozen.