Stockholm, January 16h, 2024 - Furhat Robotics today announced the launch of FurhatAI, a groundbreaking software that brings together large language models (LLMs), intelligent vision and speech technology to give humanoid robots all the necessary conversational and social skills to maintain autonomous interactions with people in the real-world.
A New Frontier for Human-Robot Interaction
Furhat Robotics’ mission has always been to humanize technology, and FurhatAI marks an important milestone toward that vision. Robots, especially humanoid social robots, are a competitor to other forms of current technologies occupying our world, and not a competitor to humans. Humanoid robots have the potential to bring incredible prosperity to the world, solve labor shortages, improve education, companionship and mental health, and potentially disrupt every industry where technology and humans meet.
The world’s first LLM-driven conversation designer for robots
At the center of the FurhatAI software is FurhatAI Creator. This tool harnesses the analytical capabilities of LLMs to simplify and accelerate the conversational design process. It empowers designers, developers, and business users to seamlessly craft LLM-driven, sophisticated and context-aware dialogues for social robots. With intuitive prompting interface, expressivity controls and multilingual support, FurhatAI Creator lets users create natural and personalized robot-human interactions in minutes.
Integration with Microsoft’s Ecosystem
FurhatAI Enterprise is an integration solution that taps into the strength of Microsoft’s ecosystem—enabling rapid, secure deployment of humanoid robots across various enterprise environments, CRM systems, backend databases, among others. FurhatAI Enterprise paves the way for autonomous service points that deliver an interactive human experience. Whether assisting customers in retail environments, facilitating seamless service at reception desks, or delivering guided training scenarios, FurhatAI Enterprise ensures that robots can be deployed faster, managed more easily, and customized to reflect the brand’s unique voice.
Bringing characters to life with voice cloning and robotics
In collaboration with ElevenLabs, Furhat Robotics is integrating voice cloning technology into Furhat, giving users capability to bring to life historical figures, fictional characters and more in the form of humanoid robots. “
“FurhatAI represents a turning point in the field of social robotics. FurhatAI lets users deploy and test robot use cases within minutes, something that took months of project development and costs just a year ago.” said Samer Al Moubayed, CEO of Furhat Robotics.
