Furhat Robotics

Social robotics platform

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What Furhat Robotics is

Furhat Robotics is a social robotics company. Its Furhat robot combines a projected expressive face with conversational AI, and the platform provides creator tools, real-time APIs and SDKs for research, education and service prototypes.

What you can do with it

Run HRI experiments on real hardware
Prototype service robot interactions
Build multi-party dialogue demos
Customise the robot's appearance and voice

Who it is for

University labs and research institutions
Educational innovation teams
Enterprise innovation departments

What to watch out for

Hardware cost and deployment logistics exceed software-only tools
Public deployments need privacy, ethics and safety assessment
Research goals, scripts and data policies should be defined first
Robot interactions involving the public raise consent questions

Pros & cons

✓ What we like

Real physical social robot, not a mockup
Strong research tooling
Multi-party interaction support

! What to watch out for

Hardware cost
Ethics and privacy overhead
Niche beyond research and prototyping

FAQ

What does Furhat solve?

Research and innovation teams needing real social robots for conversational experiments.

Is it for public deployment?

It suits research and prototyping; public rollout needs ethics, privacy and safety assessment.

What should I prepare?

Scenarios, dialogue scripts, hardware budget, SDK environment and data policies.

Last reviewed: 2026-09-15

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