Social RoboticsFurChat puts GPT-3.5 into a Furhat robot receptionist
Heriot-Watt researchers built an embodied conversational agent that mixes open chat with factual answers and matching facial expressions.
A team led from Heriot-Watt University described FurChat, a receptionist for the National Robotarium in Edinburgh running on a Furhat social robot. The system uses GPT-3.5 with prompt engineering to handle both open-ended small talk and questions about the facility's research, news and events, and it generates facial expressions to suit what is said. The paper was accepted at the SIGDIAL 2023 conference. It is a concrete early example of combining an LLM with an expressive robot face in a real public-facing role.
Source: arXiv
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