QTrobot V2
Humanoid Social Robot
for Human AI Research & Teaching
Native ROS API
Immediately connect with the largest open-source robotics community
Rich SDK
Industry grade software for text to speech, skeleton tracking, emotion recognition, and more
All in One
Robust engaging platform with high-end sensors and exceptional processing power
What I like the most about QTrobot is that it doesn't break!
” For us, it is very important to have a robot that is reliable. We have been using QTrobot in several research projects, where QTrobot was working many hours each day and support children to solve problems collaboratively. With QTrobot we conducted the research projects comfortably.”
QTrobot is very developer-friendly & reliable
”We have been using the robot in several projects including the iRe-CHeCK project that aims to help children with Agraphia learn handwriting. The robot is very developer-friendly and allows you to use ROS and develop new programs for the research. Also it is very good that the robot is not breaking or overheating frequently”
The best thing about QTrobot is that it works with ROS and UBUNTU!
”I have been working with QTrobot first at the University of Southern California and now in Politecnico di Milano. The best thing about QTrobot is that it works with ROS and programming it is very easy. I can easily develop new programs for the robot and use it in various use cases. Also by having a monitor in the face I can use facial expressions to convey emotions and elicit empathy.”
What I like the most about QTrobot is that it doesn't break!
QTrobot is very developer-friendly & reliable
The best thing about QTrobot is that it works with ROS and UBUNTU!
Exceptional Sensing & Processing
QTrobot platform for research and development combines the best-in-the-market hardware components with a friendly design. QTrobot is a robust platform suitable for intensive working hours and multi-disciplinary research projects on social robotics and human-robot interaction.
Exceptional Sensing & Processing
QTrobot combines the best-in-the-market hardware components with a friendly design. QTrobot is a robust platform suitable for intensive working hours and multi-disciplinary research projects on social robotics and human-robot interaction.
Hardware Specification
QTrobot Platform For Research
Computing Board
Intel® Core™ i5/i7 Processor
3D Cameras
Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D455
Microphone
4 High-performance digital microphones
Speaker
Stereo 2.8W Class D
Memory & Storage
Up to 32 GB RAM, up to 512 GB SSD
Connectivity
WLAN, USB-C, USB 3.0,
Ethernet & HDMI ports through USB-C adaptor
Hardware Specification
QTrobot for research
| Computing Board | Intel® Core™ i5/i7 Processor |
|---|---|
| 3D Camera | Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D455 |
| Microphone | 4 High-performance digital microphones |
| Speaker | Stereo 2.8W Class D |
| Memory & Storage | Up to 32 GB RAM, up to 512 GB SSD |
| Connectivity | WLAN, USB-C, USB 3.0 |
| Ethernet & HDMI ports through USB-C adaptor |
Developer friendly as your laptop
Programmable by Everyone
Easy to use graphical interface for non-IT users
ROS Enabled
Python and C++ API for the Robot Operating System
Developer Friendly
Powered by Intel® NUC and Ubuntu, the platforms you know!
As Developer Friendly as Your Laptop
Developer Friendly
Powered by Intel® NUC and Ubuntu, the platforms you know!
ROS Enabled
Python and C++ API for the Robot Operating System
Programmable by Everyone
Easy to use graphical interface for non-IT users
Rich and Powerful SDK
QTrobot’s SDK provides you with top software to build great applications for your QTrobot! Enjoy a great text-to-speech by Acapela™, high quality skeleton tracking, gesture recognition and sentiment analysis by Nuitrack™, sound detection & localization by integrated Respeaker™ mic array, and many more functionalities such as image recognition, all ready to integrate in your applications
Rich and Powerful SDK
QTrobot’s SDK provides you with top software to build great applications for your QTrobot! Enjoy a great text-to-speech by Acapela™, high-quality skeleton tracking, gesture recognition and sentiment analysis by Nuitrack™, sound detection & localization by integrated Respeaker™ mic array, and many more functionalities such as image recognition, all ready to integrate into your applications.
Pre-installed Software
Speech Recognition
QTrobot comes with integrated voice recognition services and corresponding ROS API supporting more than 20 languages.
Sound Detection & Localization
A high-performance far-field digital microphone array enables QTrobot to capture and understand voice activities up to 5m away.
Multi-Lingual Text-to-speech
QTrobot is equipped with the Acapela Text to speech software, enabling it to naturally speak in more than 30 languages and accents.
Pose Tracking
Thanks to its D455 Intel® RealSense™ 3D camera and a cutting edge pose tracking technology, QTrobot can recognize and track human poses with a high precision.
Emotion Detection & Recognition
QTrobot includes a state of the art software to recognize gender, age group and emotions of people with an industry leading performance!
Image Recognition
The powerful image recognition software makes teaching QTrobot to recognize new images as simple as uploading your images to the robot!
Face Detection & Recognition
QTrobot can detect and recognize faces, so you can program it to react to the people it knows!
Pre-installed Software
Speech Recognition
QTrobot comes with integrated voice recognition services and corresponding ROS API supporting more than 20 languages.
Sound Detection & Localization
A high-performance far-field digital microphone array enables QTrobot to capture and understand voice activities up to 5m away.
Multi-Lingual Text-to-speech
QTrobot is equipped with the Acapela Text to speech software, enabling it to naturally speak in more than 30 languages and accents.
Pose Tracking
Thanks to its D455 Intel® RealSense™ 3D camera and a cutting edge pose tracking technology, QTrobot can recognize and track human poses with a high precision.
Emotion Detection & Recognition
QTrobot includes a state of the art software to recognize gender, age group and emotions of people with an industry leading performance!
Image Recognition
The powerful image recognition software makes teaching QTrobot to recognize new images as simple as uploading your images to the robot!
Face Detection & Recognition
QTrobot can detect and recognize faces, so you can program it to react to the people it knows!
API Reference Examples
Emotions, Age & Gender Recognition
Voice Interaction
Motor Control
Image Recognition
Skeleton Tracking
Voice Localization
API Reference Examples
Emotions, Age & Gender Recognition
Motor Control
Skeleton Tracking
Voice Interaction
Image Recognition
Voice Localization
QTrobot Studio
Graphical interface for non-technical researchers
QTrobot Studio is an easy-to-use graphical interface designed for non-technical users such as researchers in the fields of psychology, education, and human science who are interested to create their own tailormade research use case. By using simple, easy-to-understand blocks, non-technical researchers are able to create a fully functional program that can be used with the intervention group in just a few clicks.
Even as a technical user, you will find our drag-and-drop based programming interface handy to quickly prototype interactive and engaging applications for your experiment setup and to easily integrate and use QTrobot for your research.
QTrobot Studio
Graphical interface for non-technical researchers
QTrobot Studio is an easy-to-use graphical interface designed for non-technical users such as researchers in the fields of psychology, education, and human science who are interested to create their own tailormade research use case. By using simple, easy-to-understand blocks, non-technical researchers are able to create a fully functional program that can be used with the intervention group in just a few clicks.
Even as a technical user, you will find our drag-and-drop based programming interface handy to quickly prototype interactive and engaging applications for your experiment setup and to easily integrate and use QTrobot for your research.
Empowering non-technical researchers
QTrobot Studio allows creating programs for:
- Robot speech in various languages
- Showing facial expressions & emotions on QTrobot face
- Showing various gestures from the pre-recorded gesture gallery and recording new custom gestures
- Manually controlled, Wizard of Oz conversation & response choices
- Presenting visuals such as images and videos on a tablet screen and creating interactive tablet applications with clickable visuals
- Interactive programs using facial expression recognition, gesture recognition and image recognition
- Autonomous conversation using pre-defined responses
- Generating automated session reports and progress evaluation from the interaction with the robot
Empowering non-technical researchers
QTrobot Studio allows creating programs for:
- Robot speech in various languages
- Showing facial expressions & emotions on QTrobot face
- Showing various gestures from the pre-recorded gesture gallery and recording new custom gestures
- Manually controlled, Wizard of Oz conversation & response choices
- Presenting visuals such as images and videos on a tablet screen and creating interactive tablet applications with clickable visuals
- Interactive programs using facial expression recognition, gesture recognition and image recognition
- Autonomous conversation using pre-defined responses
- Generating automated session reports and progress evaluation from the interaction with the robot
QTrobot On Duty
QTrobot is loved by the community of researchers and developers, because of how easy to use and reliable it is. Here are samples of great use cases our research community is building with QTrobot!
QTrobot On Duty
QTrobot is loved by the community of researchers and developers, because of how easy to use and reliable it is.
Here are samples of great use cases our research community is building with QTrobot:
User Stories and Testimonials
QTrobot In Education
CoWriter
EPFL
The CoWriter Project aims at exploring how a robot can help children with the acquisition of handwriting through an original approach: the children are the teachers who help the robot to better write…
JUSThink
EPFL
The JUSThink project aims to improve the computational thinking skills of children by exercising reasoning graphs, in a setup consisting of a QTrobot and touch screens as input devices…
VR Telepresence
University of Luxembourg
This research introduces a telepresence framework for the location-independent operation of a social robot using a virtual reality headset and controllers using motion, emotion and voice output…
Informative and Narrative Teaching using Social Robots
EPFL
This project compares robots to human teaching, with the aim to evaluate the different outcomes of teaching biology content in informative and narrative sessions. The study evaluates both students’ and teachers’ experiences in the process.
QTrobot In Education
CoWriter
EPFL
The CoWriter Project aims at exploring how a robot can help children with the acquisition of handwriting through an original approach: the children are the teachers who help the robot to better write…
JUSThink
EPFL
The JUSThink project aims to improve the computational thinking skills of children by exercising reasoning graphs, in a setup consisting of a QTrobot and touch screens as input devices…
VR Telepresence
University of Luxembourg
This research introduces a telepresence framework for the location-independent operation of a social robot using a virtual reality headset and controllers using motion, emotion and voice output…
Informative and Narrative Teaching using Social Robots
EPFL
This project compares robots to human teaching, with the aim to evaluate the different outcomes of teaching biology content in informative and narrative sessions. The study evaluates both students’ and teachers’ experiences in the process.
QTrobot In Special Needs Education
Social Empathetic Robot for Autism (SERA)
Italian National Research Centre (CNR)
The SERA project is focused on a large-scale, randomized clinical trial, evaluating the effectiveness of an emotional skills intervention delivered by QTrobot on children with autism vs the intervention delivered by a therapist.
Speech therapy for autism, robot vs virtual agent
Polytechnic University of Milan
This project aims to compare the impact of speech therapy interventions that are delivered through a social embodied robot to interventions that are delivered using a virtual agent shown on a tablet screen.
Helping Children Express Nonverbal Intentions
University of Southern California
This project aim is supporting the physical therapy of patient with dystonia using assistive technology, answering questions such as if robot improves the interaction comparing to having a normal equipment..
Teaching handwriting in kids with dysgraphia
The University of Sorbonne with Paris 8
Dysgraphia can seriously impair the everyday school life of children and have a damaging impact on their academic achievements. the iReCHeCk project will develop engaging training activities with a robot …
Improving User Health, Communication, Autonomy
University of Southern California
A team of researchers working under renowned Prof. Maja Mataric is exploring how to develop socially assistive robots that will foster a bond with people to improve health, wellness, autonomy ..
Assistive robotics program with LDS students
University of Waterloo SIRRL
In this pilot study by SIRRL, LDS students are given the opportunity to interact with a socially assistive robot with specific exercises, expected to enhance student progress…
Social robotics to help children with their social skills development
Social and Intelligent robotics research laboratory, University of Waterloo
At SIRRL, researchers use QTrobot for social robotics projects to help children with their social skills development.
Therapeutic interventions – clinical effects and mechanisms of action
Pediatric psychiatry, University clinic of Erlangen
The subject of the study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of QTRobot for the treatment of child and adolescent psychiatric patients compared to healthy controls in two training conditions (therapist vs. robot).
Interactive Robots to Assist in Prosthesis Usage for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Interaction Lab, University of Southern California (USC)
This study examines ways in which SAR systems can help children in using active orthoses to perform tasks such as non-verbal communication through gesturing.
HRI-based Intervention for ASD Children using ADDIE Model and ABA
International Islamic University Malaysia
The purpose of this preliminary study is to support children with ASD and their educators by introducing robots as an assistive tool.
Emotional Training with QTrobot for Children With Autism
University of Luxembourg, INSIDE
This project presents an exploratory study to evaluate whether a robot-mediated emotional training is effective for enhancing the emotional abilities and mental health of children with ASD…
Learning from Skeleton-Based Observations for Robot-Assisted Therapy
Münster UoAS (FHM) & RFH UoAS, Cologne
In the context of the MigrAVE project, they investigate an approach for acquiring motions from skeleton observations of a human, collected by a robot-centric RGB-D camera, to be used in robot-assisted therapy.
Supporting Children with Autism in Migration Context
Institute of Experimental Psychophysiology, IXP-Düsseldorf
QTrobot In Special Needs Education
Social Empathetic Robot for Autism (SERA)
Italian National Research Centre (CNR)
The SERA project is focused on a large-scale, randomized clinical trial, evaluating the effectiveness of an emotional skills intervention delivered by QTrobot on children with autism vs the intervention delivered by a therapist.
Speech therapy for autism, robot vs virtual agent
Polytechnic University of Milan
This project aims to compare the impact of speech therapy interventions that are delivered through a social embodied robot to interventions that are delivered using a virtual agent shown on a tablet screen.
Assistive robotics program with LDS students
University of Waterloo SIRRL
In this pilot study by SIRRL, LDS students are given the opportunity to interact with a socially assistive robot with specific exercises, expected to enhance student progress…
Development of a framework for QTRobot to facilitate learning handwriting in children with dysgraphia
University of Sorbonne with Paris 8
Dysgraphia can seriously impair the everyday school life of children and have damageable impact on their academic achievements. the iReCHeCk project will develop engaging training activities with a robot …
Helping Children Express Nonverbal Intentions
University of Southern California
This project aim is supporting the physical therapy of patients with dystonia using assistive technology, answering questions such as if a robot improves the interaction comparing to having normal equipment.
Improving User Health, Communication, Autonomy
University of Southern California
A team of researchers working under renowned Prof. Maja Mataric is exploring how to develop socially assistive robots that will foster a bond with people to improve health, wellness, autonomy.
Emotional Training for Children With Autism
The University of Luxembourg, INSIDE
This project presents an exploratory study to evaluate whether a robot-mediated emotional training is effective for enhancing the emotional abilities and mental health of children with ASD…
Social robotics to help children with their social skills development
Social and Intelligent robotics research laboratory, University of Waterloo
At SIRRL, researchers use QTrobot for social robotics projects to help children with their social skills development.
Therapeutic interventions – clinical effects and mechanisms of action
Pediatric psychiatry, University clinic of Erlangen
The subject of the study is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of QTRobot for the treatment of child and adolescent psychiatric patients compared to healthy controls in two training conditions (therapist vs. robot).
Interactive Robots to Assist in Prosthesis Usage for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Interaction Lab, University of Southern California (USC)
This study examines ways in which SAR systems can help children in using active orthoses to perform tasks such as non-verbal communication through gesturing.
HRI-based Intervention for ASD Children using ADDIE Model and ABA
International Islamic University Malaysia
The purpose of this preliminary study is to support children with ASD and their educators by introducing robots as an assistive tool.
Learning from Skeleton-Based Observations for Robot-Assisted Therapy
Münster UoAS (FHM) & RFH UoAS, Cologne
In the context of the MigrAVE project, they investigate an approach for acquiring motions from skeleton observations of a human, collected by a robot-centric RGB-D camera, to be used in robot-assisted therapy.
Supporting Children with Autism in Migration Context
Institute of Experimental Psychophysiology, IXP-Düsseldorf
QTrobot in Elderly Care and Healthy Ageing
Socially-Assistive Robots for Alzheimer’s
Charles River Analytics Inc
The SARA project funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) develops social robots to enhance the connectedness, caregiving and well-being of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers.
Emotional Robots for Physical Rehabilitation
Uni of Leon & Uni of Luxembourg
This project explores using social robots for improving patients’ motivation during rehabilitation exercises by developing a rehabilitation framework for reinforcement and enhance user experience …
Music therapy for elderly care home residents
Music Cognition Communication Lab Middlesex
In this project, the music therapy sessions will be alternated with sessions delivered via the QTrobot with the help of a care home carer, using musical exercises created by music therapists…
How robots can support meaning later in life
Indiana University & Toyota Research
This study investigates how robots may be designed to support older adults’ sense of purpose and meaning, expanding the preventative and therapeutic functions of socially assistive robots for well-being.
Socially assistive robotics to support Low vision rehabilitation
University of California & University of Southern California
This study explores the potential of applying socially assistive robots to lower the barriers of long-term low vision rehabilitation (LVR) interventions for older adults.
Assistive Social Robot: older people’s perception and acceptance
University of Luxembourg (INSIDE)
Via interviews and interactive tasks with the elderly and the robot, this study investigates the potential benefit of a social assistive robot (QTrobot) on daily functioning for older people who live at home.
QTrobot in Elderly Care and Healthy Ageing
Socially-Assistive Robots for Alzheimer’s
Charles River Analytics Inc
The SARA project funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) develops social robots to enhance the connectedness, caregiving and well-being of adults with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers.
Emotional Robots for Physical Rehabilitation
Uni of Leon & Uni of Luxembourg
This project explores using social robots for improving patients’ motivation during rehabilitation exercises by developing a rehabilitation framework for reinforcement and enhance user experience …
How robots can support meaning later in life
Indiana University & Toyota Research
This study investigates how robots may be designed to support older adults’ sense of purpose and meaning, expanding the preventative and therapeutic functions of socially assistive robots for well-being.
music therapy for elderly care home residents via QTrobot
Music Cognition Communication Lab Middlesex
In this project, the music therapy sessions will be alternated with sessions delivered via the QTrobot with the help of a care home carer, using musical exercises created by music therapists…
Socially assistive robotics to support Low vision rehabilitation
University of California & University of Southern California
This study explores the potential of applying socially assistive robots to lower the barriers of long-term low vision rehabilitation (LVR) interventions for older adults.
Assistive Social Robot: older people’s perception and acceptance
University of Luxembourg (INSIDE)
Via interviews and interactive tasks with the elderly and the robot, this study investigates the potential benefit of a social assistive robot (QTrobot) on daily functioning for older people who live at home.
QTrobot Other Use Cases
Security service in social robots for healthcare
Secure IOT, H2020
The focus of the secure IOT project is to develop a framework that enables security service in socially assistive robot scenarios for healthcare applications. The project is funded by H2020 and focuses on security as service applications.
Robot storyteller for eliciting empathy in users
Polytechnic University of Milan
The project focuses on understanding the factors eliciting empathy when a robot is used to tell stories, including the first-person narrative way of storytelling vs third-person narrative.
Social robots to support people with addiction issues
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, FHNW
The aim of this study is to test the robot application with people affected by addiction.
The team works with QTrobot on scenarios based on proven intervention tools.
Socially Assistive Robots as Storytellers
Interaction Lab, University of Southern California
QTrobot is used in an empirical study to evaluate and try to understand how a socially assistive robot can elicit empathy in users through storytelling.
Implications of Social Robots in Religious Contexts
Siegen University & Würzburg University
In this study, QTrobot is used to investigate how basic design aspects like size, gesture, voice, and facial expressions affect the emotional experience and cognitive judgment of being blessed through robot technology.
Natural Interaction Robot Behavior Module
CHILI, EPFL
The aim of this project is to make interactions with QTrobot more natural. The robot is used to detect positive, neutral and negative emotional cues from the user and tune its behavior accordingly.
Privacy-preserving Robotics in DEntistry
University of Plymouth, UK
In this interdisciplinary project between dentistry, robotics and cyber security, QTrobot is used to study how socially-assistive robots can be helpful in dental care.
Robotic interaction with more lively behavior
IMT-atlantique, France
This student project aims to give QTrobot a little more life when it does not have a specific task to perform, by imitating human-like behavior, responding to greetings, following movements etc.
Transforming pictures to artwork through a robot
University of Luxembourg
This cross-disciplinary project combines AI and Art through QTrobot. As an example, QTrobot can take a picture of a person and transform it to different style of art.
Image Recommender Robot Meeting Assistant
University of Luxembourg
As the pandemic transferred more meetings online, this paper presents a system of using QTrobot as a recommender of images related to the meeting content, presented in real time.
Mindfulness practice with robot coach
University of Cambridge
In this study QTrobot was used as a mindfulness coach to conduct meditation sessions in a group setting and evaluate how a robot coach can deliver mindfulness practice.
QTrobot Other Use Cases
Security service in social robots for healthcare
Secure IOT, H2020
The focus of the secure IOT project is to develop a framework that enables security service in socially assistive robot scenarios for healthcare applications. The project is funded by H2020 and focuses on security as service applications.
Robot storyteller eliciting empathy
Polytechnic University of Milan
The project focuses on understanding the factors eliciting empathy when a robot is used to tell stories, including the first-person narrative way of storytelling vs third-person narrative.
Social robots to support people with addiction issues
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, FHNW
The aim of this study is to test the robot application with people affected by addiction.
The team works with QTrobot on scenarios based on proven intervention tools.
Socially Assistive Robots as Storytellers
Interaction Lab, University of Southern California
QTrobot is used in an empirical study to evaluate and try to understand how a socially assistive robot can elicit empathy in users through storytelling.
Implications of Social Robots in Religious Contexts
Siegen University & Würzburg University
In this study, QTrobot is used to investigate how basic design aspects like size, gesture, voice, and facial expressions affect the emotional experience and cognitive judgment of being blessed through robot technology.
Natural Interaction Robot Behavior Module
CHILI, EPFL
The aim of this project is to make interactions with QTrobot more natural. The robot is used to detect positive, neutral and negative emotional cues from the user and tune its behavior accordingly.
Privacy-preserving Robotics in DEntistry
University of Plymouth, UK
In this interdisciplinary project between dentistry, robotics and cyber security, QTrobot is used to study how socially-assistive robots can be helpful in dental care.
Robotic interaction with more lively behavior
IMT-atlantique, France
This student project aims to give QTrobot a little more life when it does not have a specific task to perform, by imitating human-like behavior, responding to greetings, following movements etc.
Transforming pictures to artwork through a robot
University of Luxembourg
This cross-disciplinary project combines AI and Art through QTrobot. As an example, QTrobot can take a picture of a person and transform it to different style of art.
Image Recommender Robot Meeting Assistant
University of Luxembourg
As the pandemic transferred more meetings online, this paper presents a system of using QTrobot as a recommender of images related to the meeting content, presented in real time.
Mindfulness practice with robot coach
University of Cambridge
In this study QTrobot was used as a mindfulness coach to conduct meditation sessions in a group setting and evaluate how a robot coach can deliver mindfulness practice.
Want to learn more about QTrobot and how it can be integrated into your research project?
Book a live demo and discuss your use case with our technical team
Want to learn more about QTrobot and how it can be integrated into your research project?
Book a live demo and discuss your use case with our technical team