BabyRobot will be presented by partner Athena RC in the occasion of “Paneuropean Researcher’s Night 2016”, which will take place at the National Centre of Scientific Research “Demokritos” (Athens, Greece) premises on 30th of September 2016. It will also be presented during a pre-event which will take place on 27th of September, at the Athena RC premises. The objective of these events is to provide information about current research programs and achievements to students, researchers, the industry and the general public.

We are delighted to announce that a number of papers were presented at the Interspeech conference in September 2016. Interspeech is one of the world’s largest conferences on spoken language processing. More information can be found in the “Publications” page.

A pilot study starts at the elementary school Kunskapsskolan in Hägersten in Stockholm, a school for ASD children and children with other special needs. The study will go on with the school having a Furhat until June 2017.

Furhat Robotics presented  the timeline in Futurum (Stockholm Waterfront, Sweden – August 17 2016) game as an example of how the education of the future could be.

The first BabyRobot technical meeting took place on 7-8 June 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.