Furhat

The Furhat humanoid robot by Furhat Robotics is a social robotics platform optimized for human-robot interaction, featuring a highly expressive back-projected face with customizable masks for lifelike facial animations including smiling, nodding, frowning, and blinking. Mounted on a dynamic 3-DOF head with pan/tilt/roll motion driven by high-speed servos, it supports natural conversations through advanced speech recognition in over 40 languages, text-to-speech synthesis with lip-syncing, and multimodal sensing via RGB camera for user tracking up to 10 people and microphone arrays for far-field audio up to 5m. Designed for stationary desk-top use, Furhat excels in customer service, education, healthcare, and research, enabling experiments in conversational AI, proxemics, and nonverbal cues with low-latency responses under 200ms. Its modular design includes Intel Core i5 compute, WiFi/Ethernet connectivity, and gesture libraries for immersive, human-like engagement without bipedal mobility.