What we study
Solfa researches and builds Social AI. Our current focus is embodied social intelligence. We start with embodied interaction, using robots to observe how people and AI attend, communicate and coordinate through gaze, language and movement.
Where we come from
The Solfa team comes from the frontier AI group of Huawei's 2012 Laboratories, with years of research and product practice in HCI and HRI. Over the past decade, we worked as core members on the first-generation Magic AI phone and the Xiaoyi Genie social robot. From phones to robots, we have always studied how intelligent systems interact with people.
What we believe
We founded Solfa to keep interaction at the core of AI research and products.
People are the purpose
We want technology to help people work and live better. People's safety, privacy and freedom to choose come first. The people who use a system should have a part in shaping it.
Interaction is part of intelligence
How people and intelligent systems perceive, understand and change each other is part of intelligence itself. Good help starts with understanding the situation and the person in front of us.
Work like an ensemble
We share a structure and leave room for improvisation. We listen, respond and adjust as others change, defining questions and creating new possibilities together.
Turn research into useful products
We care about turning research into products. We build our ideas, bring them into real settings, and let use and feedback challenge our assumptions and improve the work.
Curiosity and execution
Curiosity and the drive to make things happen keep us moving. We ask questions worth pursuing, test our ideas and follow through to turn them into something people can use.
The people behind Solfa
