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Emotech’s Olly the robot – with personality!

Collaborate & Innovate, News 09/08/2018

We’re very excited about the latest innovative collaboration made possible by The Data Lab: Emotech’s Olly the robot.

The Data Lab funded 50% of the project research costs, enabling the tie-up with Heriot-Watt University’s Interaction Lab and Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab, led by Dr Liu and Dr Rieser. This collaboration allowed research to be undertaken leading to the development of Olly’s unique framework and test model.

Olly is a showcase of Emotech’s AI technology and is the first step in demonstrating how conversation interfaces can be applied across various industry uses. In other words, Olly is a robot with personality!

Read the full Emotech case study.

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