Furhat Robotics · Social · 2018
A conversational social-robot head that back-projects an animated, fully customizable face onto a 3-DoF moving head. Born from KTH (Stockholm) social-robotics research; named after a fur hat used to hide early prototype wires. Tracks up to 10 people via stereo vision, supports 120+ languages and 200+ voices, and runs the FurhatAI platform (LLM-swappable) with <200ms turn-taking. The most expressive social robot in research/enterprise HRI; from ~$15,000. Acquired Misty Robotics in 2022.
Price level: ★★★★★
View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos → Check price on Amazon →| Category | Social |
| Sub-type | Conversational social robot head |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2018 |
| Origin | Sweden |
| Degrees of freedom | 3 |
| Camera | Wide-angle stereo camera (120° FoV, tracks up to 10 people) |
| AI model | Conversational AI / LLM |
| Use cases | Human-robot interaction research, Education, Healthcare, Customer service, Conversational AI experiments |
| Made in | Sweden |
