Social RoboticsAfter the Furhat deal, Misty Robotics relaunches for education and research
Furhat upgraded Misty's conversational skills and added tools aimed at teachers and students.
Four months after the acquisition, Furhat relaunched Misty with improved natural language understanding, Python tools, a drag-and-drop interface and a new SDK. The company planned to expand in the US and Sweden and to target healthcare researchers working with patients with conditions such as Alzheimer's and autism. TechCrunch framed the move as a sign that consumer robots remained hard to sell, pushing social robot makers towards education and research. It reflects a common path for social robots in the years before generative AI.
Source: TechCrunch
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