The Furhat Robot Platform

Physical Dimensions

Robot Weight: 3.5 kg
410mm x 270mm x 240mm (HxWxD)
Eye Height: ~300¹ mm

Onboard Camera Sensor

RGB Sensor Type
120° diagonal FOV
3.4 MP camera streaming 640x480 pixels
Fixed Focus for interaction space
Automatic Exposure control

Onboard Microphones

2 x 100Hz~10kHz digital, PDM stereoscopic digital MEMS omnidirectional microphones, set 180mm apart on the robot’s shoulders.

Bundled USB Microphones

4 x MEMS omnidirectional digital mics
Far-field voice pick-up up to 5m
DOA (Direction of Arrival)
AEC (Automatic Echo Cancellation)
AGC (Automatic Gain Control)
NS (Noise Suppression)
Sensitivity: -26 dBFS (Omnidirectional)
Acoustic Overload Point: 120 dBSPL
360° pick-up pattern

Projection and Optics

165² lumens brightness
1280x720³ Resolution
1400:1 Contrast
Texas Instruments DLP®

Furhat Mask

The mask is based on a Furhat proprietary polymer blend that is optimized for optical performance in conjunction with Furhat Projection & Optics system.

Motion Platform

3 Degrees Of Freedom (DOF)
Pan/Tilt/Roll with silent off-axis panning
3 x high speed servos, active feedback
0.088° resolution
25 kg·cm stall torque
Metallic gears

Rotary Controll

Rotary thumbwheel controller with click function controls volume & on face menu.

Computer Platform

Intel Core i5 CPU, up to 3.40 GHz
8GB RAM
120 GB SSD mass storage
Iris Plus 640 GPU

Speaker System

Dual speakers are optimised for human voice frequencies and angled to support the interaction space.
2.5”
30W Power
Full range type
Magnetic type
Aluminium cone

Rear I/O Panel

Power On/Off Switch
19⁴ Volt/90 Watt power input jack
802.11ac WiFi, 2.4/5.0 Ghz
Wired Ethernet Port - 10/100/1000
2 x USB A supporting USB 3.0
1 x USB-C⁵

LED Ring

Enables a silver lining effect, allowing the robot to signal a presence outside the container of its body, further increasing its presence in a space when needed. Uses 88 x RGB LED, controllable from FurhatOS/Skills.

Product Packaging

Robot Weight: 3.5 kgShipped in protective foam box, hard shelled protective case as optional add-on

Environmental & Installation

Ambient Temperature: 5-25° C / 41-77° F
200 mm ventilation clearance behind unit

External Monitor Support

The Furhat Platform provides support for an external monitor connected via the robot’s USB-C port. The officially supported monitors are:
ELO 1502L – Full HD (1080p version)
Dell P2418HT 24” Touch

The Furhat Robot

Inspired by human anatomy and aesthetics, the Furhat Robot is the result of years of research into social and conversational humanoid robots.

The Furhat Robot

Inspired by human anatomy and aesthetics, the Furhat Robot is the result of years of research into social and conversational humanoid robots.

Designed for human social interactions

To interact with us robots need to see, hear, speak, and express themselves as naturally as we can. Furhat is specifically designed for human social interactions using a multimodal system with discrete modular subsystems that handle functions such as facial animations, neck motion, visual perception, audio processing, cloud service integrations and other operations that allow it to interact with humans just as we interact with each other.

Furhat mask

Furhat's polymer mask is designed with human curvatures that allow it to display human facial elements of any size and shape, including eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, lips and more.

Back-projector

Back-projection system with real time high-fidelity rendering of dynamic facial expressions and lip-syncing through a smart 3D graphics face engine.

Neck joint

Neck joint and rotation platform that allows Furhat to move its head with 3 degrees of freedom, including panning, tilting and rolling.

LED ring

Enables a silver lining effect, allowing the robot to signal a presence outside the container of its body, further increasing its presence in a space when needed.

Customizable appearance and behavior

The powerful combination of back-projected facial animations, swapable masks and face editing tools make it very easy to create expressive robot characters with any ethnicity, age and gender. Furhat also comes with built-in gestures such as blinking, smiling, nodding, frowning, and other gestures that can be controlled individually or fully automated with Large Language Models.

Visual and auditory perception

Furhat can see, hear and track multiple users simultaneously in real-time, do facial expression analysis, estimate head pose and user distance, giving it the ability to have unique interactions with each individual.

Onboard camera

RGB camera with 120 degree diagonal field-of-view and fixed focus on the interaction space to track user distance and position in relation to the robot.

Multi-user tracking

Furhat's visual perception system includes a highly accurate face detection system based on state-of-the-art deep learning (single-shot-detector) model, depth estimation, and spatial modelling.

Hi-Fi speakers

High fidelity speakers with volume control that give Furhat a clear and distinguishable voice in noisy environments.

Multiarray mic

Built-in multiarray microphones and an external USB microphone with noise cancelation and direction of arrival for audio localization.

Fluid conversations in multiple languages

Furhat is designed for natural human conversation with rapid turn-taking in multiple languages. You have detailed controls for managing initiative, turn-taking, interruptions, error handling and priming the speech recogniser for expected utterances. Furhat is also integrated with leading speech recognition and voice synthesis providers including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Polly and Elevenlabs with over 200 voices available in 120 languages and dialects.

Technical Specifcations

Want to get a detailed overview of Furhat's modular system? View or download the technical specifications below.

View specifications

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Furhat SDK

Build interactions in Kotlin or use other programming languages with the Remote API. Furhat comes with a powerful set of programming tools for researchers, educators, developers, and students.

Explore SDK

FurhatAI Creator

Don't have any prior experience with coding? You can also use our LLM-driven conversation designer to rapidly ideate, create, and test interactions through prompting.

Explore Creator