Furhat for Research
The FurhatX Package
FurhatX is a package designed for researchers, academics and explorers to work with Furhat.
The package includes the robot and powerful software, tools, APIs, tutorials and documentation, built specifically for researchers and developers in mind.
Here are a few examples of where Furhat is being used.
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Human-Robot Interaction
HRI researchers deploy social robots to study the implications of the technology and the design of robots to understand how we will interact with them. -
Conversational agents
Researchers in artificial intelligence and conversational technologies are embodying conversational applications on social robots to understand the implications of conversational agents in our everyday lives. -
Cognitive development
Social robots are powerful interfaces for studying memory, attention, learning, and other cognitive functions in different groups of people, e.g. autistic children. -
Expressive characters
Creators of expressive characters bring them to life on social robots by customizing the appearance and behavior creating characters that people connect to emotionally. -
Human communication and perception
Social robots enable researchers to run controlled experiments to understand human psychology, language, social behaviour and more. -
Innovation labs
Creative labs explore the future of conversational interfaces by showcasing the latest technology on social robots to bridge the gap between science and fiction. -
Teaching
Teachers of conversational interfaces and Human-Robot Interaction increase engagement in students by using social robots as a teaching tool. -
The arts
Artists harness the emotional impact that social robots have on people to engage them in the conversation of the role of technology in our lives.
Furhat for Research
Learn about what other researchers are doing with Furhat
”For research purposes, the Furhat SDK is great because it’s very flexible – it allows you to quickly and easily develop demonstrations and short interactions, but you can also integrate your own tools to create even more complex conversations.”
”I've been using the Furhat SDK since the first generation, and each new release comes packed with great features. Using the easy-to-learn state machines concept, you can get started really quickly, while still allowing for a complex and scaleable architecture.”
”I love how the Furhat SDK enables Developers to control the voice, personality, expressions and spatial awareness of the robot, which is very important when creating human-like interactions.”
"The Furhat SDK is based on a model of dialog flows, state charts and events that bring clarity to everything you do. Once you understand these concepts, the SDK becomes really easy to use and before you know it, you’ll be designing very powerful dialog flows."
”I'm used to tackling smaller problems related to machine learning but Furhat adds many dimensions such as speech recognition, TTS, emotion detection and user tracking. This makes it much more complex, but also very rewarding when it all comes together.”
Get the FurhatX Package
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