Furhat for Research

The FurhatX Package

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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.

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.

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.

Social robots are powerful interfaces for studying memory, attention, learning, and other cognitive functions in different groups of people, e.g. autistic children.

Creators of expressive characters bring them to life on social robots by customizing the appearance and behavior creating characters that people connect to emotionally.

Social robots enable researchers to run controlled experiments to understand human psychology, language, social behaviour and more.

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.

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."