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AI · November 7, 2018

Furhat

A social robot capable of displaying humanlike expressions

Furhat launched on November 7, 2018 with 74 votes, #547 of 2,709 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

What it does

Furhat is a social robot that communicates with us humans as we do with each other - by speaking, listening, showing emotions and maintaining eye contact.

Furhat Robotics is a humanoid robotics and conversational AI company, building the next generation of humanoid social robots with with human-level conversational and social skills. Furhat - our flagship robot for research and education, is backed by years of development and human-robot interaction (HRI) research at KTH.

Join a global community of scientists advancing our understanding of AI and human-robot interaction with the Furhat robot. Join a global community of researchers and innovators advancing our understanding of human-robot interaction. Born from social robotics research, the Furhat Robot comes with a fully customizable face, a vast library of voices in multiple languages, advanced social behaviors and development tools for you to build human-robot interactions both in the lab and in the wild. Furhat's unique combination of a back-projected 3D face engine and voice synthesis libraries open up unlimited customization. Furhat can track multiple individuals simultaneously in real-time using face…from furhatrobotics.com

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