Furhat

Furhatとは？

Furhat is a humanoid social robot and development platform for building and studying face-to-face human-robot interactions. Born from social robotics research, it combines a customizable projected face, multilingual voice options, social behaviors, and development tools. Researchers and innovators use it to investigate interaction and prototype conversational applications in research and real-world settings.

Furhatでできること

Customizable projected face

The robot's face can be customized, allowing teams to shape its visual presentation for different interaction designs.

Voice library in multiple languages

A library of voices in multiple languages supports spoken interactions across language contexts.

Social behaviors

Built-in social behaviors support the design of human-robot interactions, including expressive face-to-face exchanges.

Development tools

Tools are provided for building human-robot interaction experiences in laboratory and real-world settings.

Conversational AI interface

FurhatAI Creator supports prompting personality, controlling expression, adding knowledge sources and integrating APIs to prototype conversational interactions.

利用シーン

“Human-robot interaction research”

Researchers can use Furhat to study social interaction and communication, including work on gaze, expressive interaction, and communication beyond words.

“Clinical reasoning education”

The official project listing includes clinical-training work at Karolinska Institutet, illustrating a research use of social robotics rather than a medical-effectiveness claim.

“Hospitality workplace research”

Karlstad University researchers use the robot to simulate situations involving employees, customers, and AI, while examining workplace and customer-experience effects.

“Language learning and communication support”

Researchers can explore conversational and communication interactions with the robot, selecting and evaluating the design for their study.

“Public-facing service concepts”

Projects explore potential roles such as a robot assistant for driverless buses, a hotel front desk, and customer engagement.

よくある質問

What is Furhat designed for?

Furhat is a social robot platform for building and studying human-robot interactions, from research projects to application concepts.

Can the robot's appearance and voice be adapted?

The website describes a customizable face and a library of voices in multiple languages.

Can Furhat be used with a large language model?

Yes. FurhatAI Creator supports prompting personality, controlling expression, adding knowledge sources and integrating APIs to prototype conversational interactions.

Is Furhat used only in laboratories?

No. The product description says its development tools support building interactions in the lab and in real-world settings; listed projects also span education, hospitality, transport, and customer engagement.

Furhatの代替品

IntellAgents

intellagents.io

IntellAgents is an AI voice and chat agent platform for handling inbound and outbound calls, social messaging, and website conversations from a shared knowledge base. It supports automated replies, human handoffs, conversation summaries, and request tracking across connected channels.