Face to Face with Sweden's Social Robot
From: Product Design & Development - 12/03/2013

With a computer-generated, animated face that is rear-projected on a 3D mask,
Furhat is a platform for testing various interactive technologies, such as
speech synthesis, speech recognition and eye-tracking. The robot can conduct
conversations with multiple people, turning its head and looking each person
straight in the eye, while moving its animated lips in synch with its words.

Furhat has potential as an interactive user interface for a variety of
applications. In schools, it could be used to conduct knowledge games with
children. In assisted living centres, it could share information and chat
with people.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2013/12/face-face-swedens-social-robot

Links:
The Furhat Head
http://www.speech.kth.se/furhat/

Furhat, Sweden’s Social Robot
http://www.roboticstrends.com/research_academics/article/furhat_swedens_social_robot

A social robot in a fur hat
http://www.kth.se/en/csc/forskning/forkarportratten/en-social-robot-i-palsmossa-1.315604

Furhat - a social robot at a bar (video 2:27) (Swedish with English subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAeT8zWOqOU