
Furhat Robotics is a company focused on building the next generation of social humanoid robots for research and innovation. Their flagship product, the Furhat Robot, is a customizable platform designed for complex social interactions with people, leveraging advanced conversational capabilities, social behaviors, and development tools. The company also offers FurhatAI, a set of GenAI tools for creating conversational applications for robots, including FurhatAI Creator for prototyping and FurhatAI Enterprise integrated with Microsoft Copilot Studio for enterprise deployments. Furhat Robotics aims to make technology interact with people on human terms, believing that humanoid robots can solve labor shortages, improve education, and enhance companionship and mental health across various industries. They foster a community of scientists, organizations, and individuals working on diverse applications for their robots.

Furhat Robotics is a company focused on building the next generation of social humanoid robots for research and innovation. Their flagship product, the Furhat Robot, is a customizable platform designed for complex social interactions with people, leveraging advanced conversational capabilities, social behaviors, and development tools. The company also offers FurhatAI, a set of GenAI tools for creating conversational applications for robots, including FurhatAI Creator for prototyping and FurhatAI Enterprise integrated with Microsoft Copilot Studio for enterprise deployments. Furhat Robotics aims to make technology interact with people on human terms, believing that humanoid robots can solve labor shortages, improve education, and enhance companionship and mental health across various industries. They foster a community of scientists, organizations, and individuals working on diverse applications for their robots.
What they do: Build social humanoid robots (Furhat Robot) and conversational AI tools (FurhatAI) for research, education and commercial deployments
Founded: 2014
Headquarters / origin: Stockholm, Sweden (spinout from KTH research)
Recent activity: Acquired Misty Robotics business assets to expand U.S. presence
Funding (public records): Multiple seed rounds; disclosed rounds include $2.5M (2017) and $2M (2019); total disclosed funding ~9.77M USD
Social robotics, conversational AI, human-robot interaction
2014
Robotics Engineering
2500000
Seed round reported at $2.5M
2000000
Seed round reported at $2M
“Balderton Capital; LocalGlobe; Qualgro VC; H2020-SME-Instrument program; Qualgro VC”
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Furhat Robotics is dedicated to advancing the Furhat platform and bringing robots to society. The company values entrepreneurial technologists who are committed to the long-term success of the company and its products.
Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: Stockholm
Employment Type: Full-time
unspecified
We are searching for an entrepreneurial software engineer to advance the Furhat platform. The successful candidate will have a wide set of interests across the technology stack used at Furhat, with strengths in DevOps and the ability to maintain and support various technologies, including the Furhat operating system, the Furhat SDK, and our onboard and cloud services.