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Furhat Robot

Furhat Robot is a social robot that communicates with us humans as we do with each other – by speaking, listening, showing emotions and maintaining eye contact. This advanced research platform is used for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Cognition and Healthcare.

Welcome to the future we’ve been dreaming about!

The notion of social robots has been bound to science fiction for decades. Now they are reality. Are you ready to start exploring?

What is Furhat Robot?

Social robots are a new type of computer interface designed to be used in social contexts, to interact with people. The goal is for them to communicate with us humans as we do with each other, by listening, speaking, and expressing some degree of emotion. Verbal communication and social interaction are skills we have evolved over thousands of years and as they come so naturally to us, there is little to no learning curve. By communicating with us the way we do with each other, social robots have the ability to connect with us in deeper and more meaningful ways, potentially removing the barriers between humanity and technology.

Change the face to portray any character with diverse gender, age, and human likeness

The groundbreaking combination of facial animation and replaceable masks makes it easy and affordable to create expressive characters for any purpose.

Furhat Robot is shipped with an adult mask and 22 animated faces that can be customized into further characters. Child, anime, and dog masks are available for purchase, and additional customized faces and masks can be created on demand.

Ingenious back-projection system to display a digital face on a physical mask

One of Furhat Robot very unique features is the face. The projector inside the Furhat Robot head projects a 3D animation onto a translucent mask to create a face that feels alive. This combination of hardware and software give the robot the flexibility of a digital animated face with the impact of having a physical presence. Using special materials, the masks are designed for maximum resolution and contrast to absorb light from an optical projection position behind the mask.

Life-like expressiveness

Expressions and movements that mimic human behaviour

Wide selection of synthesized voices in different languages – or use real voices

Furhat Robot offers access to more than 200 voices in over 35 languages and varying regional dialects. Choose the voice that best suits your character, whether it’s young or old, male or female. Or use real voice recordings and the robot will lip sync to it automatically.

User awareness and Advanced computer vision for face tracking and estimation of engagement

Furhat Robot sees you, hears you, and can distinguish you from others.

Furhat Robot uses computer vision to track multiple users in real-time, do facial expression analysis, and estimate head pose and user distance. This includes a highly accurate face detection system based on state-of-the-art deep learning (single-shot-detector) model, Accurate multi-user tracking, depth estimation, and spatial modelling, Supports face recognition using DNN-based face model, allows keeping track of users over time

Combined visual and audio input enables multi-user interactions

Furhat Robot can interact with up to 10 people simultaneously and has the ability to distinguish between them and remember them during the course of an interaction.

Conversational intelligence with State-of-the-art speech recognition and TTS in multiple languages

The Furhat Robot Platform is designed for natural conversations with rapid turn-taking. You have detailed controls for managing initiative, turn-taking, interruptions, error handling and priming the speech recogniser for expected utterances. The integrated NLU engine supports a number of languages and lets you easily define intents and entities to extract meaning from user utterances.

Furhat Robot has support for more than 120+ languages using Google Cloud Speech-To-Text and Microsoft Azure Speech-To-Text. For SpeakingTTS, Furhat Robot is using Amazon Polly Cloud TTS as well as Acapela on-board TTS, together covering more than 200 voices and 35 languages.

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