Furhat Robotics

Furhat Robotics is a humanoid robotics and conversational AI company in Stockholm, Sweden. It makes the Furhat social robot, a platform backed by years of human-robot interaction research at KTH. The company describes Furhat as a robot for research, education and commercial deployment, with packages for users at different skill levels. Its robots can be customised in face, voice and social behaviour.

Platform and tools

• Customisable face: a back-projected 3D face engine allows many looks, with voice libraries in multiple languages.
• Multi-party interaction: real-time face tracking follows several people at once.
• FurhatAI Creator: desktop tools to create, debug, deploy and analyse applications, set personality, add knowledge sources, integrate APIs and log data.
• LLM prompting: interactions can be driven by prompts to large language models.
• Furhat SDK: a development kit with free video tutorials, demo skill files and documentation.

Research and deployments

The site lists research and deployment projects in areas such as clinical training, preparing teachers for difficult conversations, mental health and driverless bus studies. Its robots appear in peer-reviewed papers at conferences including ACM/IEEE HRI, ICRA, ICSR and RO-MAN. A white paper on social robots is available through a sign-up form, and the site invites readers to sign up for an upcoming conference and subscribe to its newsletter.

Health and front desk work

Other projects include a robot front desk and work with a medical sociology and rehabilitation institute. The site also presents a translational research centre for digital mental health. Its FurhatAI Creator lets teams set a robot's personality and connect knowledge sources to it, according to the site.

Key facts

• Based in: Stockholm, Sweden
• Products: Furhat robot, FurhatAI Creator, Furhat SDK
• Markets: academic research, education, healthcare training and commercial deployments