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Furhat Robotics
Furhat Robotics is a Swedish social robotics company. The company develops Furhat, a table-top humanoid social robot, and Misty II, a social robot used in healthcare and education. Originally a Corporate spin-off, spin-off company from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Furhat's platforms have been used academic research in fields such as cognitive science, psychology, Human–computer interaction, human-computer interaction, and Embodied artificial intelligence, embodied AI. Its technology has also been used in applied contexts including customer service, education, healthcare, and recruitment. History Furhat Robotics was founded in 2014 by Samer Al Moubayed, Preben Wik, Jonas Beskow, and Gabriel Skantze, most of whom were affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. The company emerged from Al Moubayed's doctoral research in speech technology and artificial intelligence. He had previously studied computer science in Damascus, Syria, wh ...
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Social Robot
A social robot is an autonomous robot that interacts and Human–robot interaction, communicates with humans or other autonomous physical Intelligent agent, agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. Like other robots, a social robot is physically embodied (avatars or on-screen synthetic social characters are not embodied and thus distinct). Some synthetic social agents are designed with a screen to represent the head or 'face' to dynamically communicate with users. In these cases, the status as a social robot depends on the form of the 'body' of the social agent; if the body has and uses some physical motors and sensor abilities, then the system could be considered a robot. Background While robots have often been described as possessing social qualities (see for example the tortoises developed by William Grey Walter in the 1950s), social robotics is a fairly recent branch of robotics. Since the 1990s, artificial intelligence and robotics researchers ha ...
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