PHYSICAL AI SOLUTIONS

Power every device with voice

Move beyond commands to natural dialog with conversational AI that powers smarter, more responsive, and more engaging devices.
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Bring intelligence, personality, and conversation to any device

Transform connected hardware into intelligent devices that listen, understand, and respond effortlessly, making every interaction feel fluid and alive. Agora brings together conversational AI, real-time communication, agent intelligence, and hardware integration all under a unified development and deployment platform.
“Agora’s AI technology enables toys and robots to interact in a way that feels natural and engaging. With real-time voice processing, emotional AI, and advanced speech capabilities, Agora makes seamless human-machine interaction possible.”
Yuna Pan
Yuna Pan
Co-Founder & CTO, Robopoet
“Agora’s real-time conversational infrastructure gave Pophie the responsiveness, interruption awareness, and interaction stability needed to feel like a living companion.”
Kim Jin
Kim Jin
Product Director, Pophie
Use cases

Stream audio to a worldwide audience

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LiveCast: Global Podcast Streaming

Stream live podcasts to a worldwide audience.
Whether it’s a hot take with a celebrity or trending topics with tech executives, allow your audience to drop in on live discussions. Agora’s interactive audio streaming ensures your livecast streams smoothly to anyone, on any device, anywhere in the world.
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Co-listening: Social Music Streaming

Build a platform for people to enjoy music together.
If you’re creating the next music streaming app, make it an interactive experience for your listeners.
With Interactive Live Streaming, create drop-in audio chat rooms for new album releases, live DJ sets, and virtual concerts that easily scale from a few listeners to thousands.
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Internet Radio with Two-Way Interaction

Make radio engaging with live host and audience interactions.
One-way communication is boring. Give your host the ability to pass the mic so attendees can  ask questions, offer comments, or enter contests in real time during the live audio stream.
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Agora’s audio streaming lets you keep the action going during broadcasts with reliable, high-quality connections reaching people all over the world.
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Event commentary

Stream live sports commentary or news coverage with real-time audience sync.
Bring live event action and excitement to fans who can attend from anywhere. Whether it’s commentary for the World Cup or in-depth reporting of a major news event, with ultra-low latency, everyone experiences each moment at the same time, allowing them to interact with each other as if they were together in person.
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Live online karaoke

Keep them singing with online karaoke.
You don’t need to be in the same room in order to jam out with friends.
Create an online karaoke (KTV) experience for small or large groups, anywhere in the world with Interactive Live Streaming audio from Agora.

Build multimodal AI experiences fast

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Connect pre-integrated AI models

Get to market faster with seamless pre-integrated connections to leading Large Language Models (LLMs).
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Enable immediate AI responses

Agora’s real-time infrastructure enables AI communication with minimal lag or delay, mimicking natural human to human conversation.
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Convert speech to text in real time

Use pre-integrated real-time transcription to convert live speech to text (STT) and feed it directly to an LLM for immediate AI responses, insights, or suggestions.
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Give AI a voice with text to speech

Deliver precise text-to-speech (TTS) output, offering a range of voice options tailored to your communication needs.
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Deploy multimodal AI agents

Enable users to communicate with AI in real time via voice, video and chat. Integrate with avatar services to give your AI a face.
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Ensure uninterrupted connections

Agora’s global real-time network and last mile technology provides the highest quality voice, video, and chat interaction regardless of network conditions and user’s location.

Build interactive devices that feel alive

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Real-time, human-like interaction

Create smooth, responsive conversations with ultra-low-latency communication, natural turn-taking, voice locking, noise suppression, and intelligent interruption handling.
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Personality and character

Give every device a distinct personality with configurable personas, behaviors, and communication styles.
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Emotion you can see

Use expressive eyes and visual reactions to make devices feel more responsive, relatable, and alive.

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Boundless virtual education is here

Break free from one-size-fits-all video conferencing solutions that ignore your students’ needs. When it comes to your video platform for education, say goodbye to unstable connections, high latency, and scalability issues.
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Agora’s education solutions give you the building blocks to assemble a custom, branded live virtual classroom at any scale, with a diverse set of engagement and collaboration tools that work reliably across the globe.
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Close
Care Gaps

The World Health Organization predicts a shortage of 18 million physicians, nurses, and support staff by 2030.
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Leading players in the Healthcare industry are using virtual care and telehealth software to close gaps in care delivery and support.
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Leverage the latest real-time engagement solutions to provide quality care from anywhere in the world.

Engage Social Shoppers. Stream Live Auctions.
Boost Upsell and Cross-Sell.

Bring your marketplace to life with human interaction. Decrease shopping cart abandonment and increase cross-sell by encouraging customers to socialize with each other and influencers to purchase an entire look, find seasonal necessities, get expert advice, and more.
According to McKinsey & Company, live-commerce-initiated sales could account for
20 percent of all e-commerce by 2026.
The live streaming shopping market in the US is estimated to be worth $35 billion by 2024.

Limitless virtual worlds for your business
to explore

Agora’s Metaverse solutions give you the building blocks to create branded virtual worlds at any scale, with a diverse toolset that works reliably across the globe and across any industry vertical such as gaming, enterprise, collaboration, education, and many more.

Build a more engaging entertainment destination

Stop losing eyeballs to social media. Make your app the destination for your fans with interactive live content featuring immersive audio and video with native social interactions. Open up new possibilities for monetization with exclusive access, virtual tipping, and live shopping overlays.

Convo AI Studio:
Design Your AI Workforce
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Build, Configure, and Scale without the Complexity
The Convo AI Studio is a UI-friendly command center that allows Product Managers and Ops leaders to architect sophisticated AI agents through easy menu selections and configuration features.

Build

Configure your AI agent with your preferred AI vendors, instant testing, and optimized audio (VAD, voice lock, noise cancellation).

Deploy

Connect a phone number, assign the agent, and run personalized, scheduled outreach with smart call and voicemail handling.
Use cases

Make connected devices more intelligent and interactive

AI Companions & Entertainment
AI Companions & Entertainment
Bring characters, pets, and toys to life with natural voice conversations and emotionally engaging interactions.
AI Companions & Entertainment
AI Companions & Entertainment
Smart Toys & Educational Devices
Smart Toys & Educational Devices
Build interactive toys, tutors, and learning companions that listen, respond, and adapt to create engaging two-way experiences.
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Smart Toys & Educational Devices
Assistive & Care Devices
Assistive & Healthcare Devices
Support independent living and elder care with devices that check in, respond, and escalate when needed.
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Assistive & Healthcare Devices
Smart Home Devices
Smart Home Devices
Add natural voice interaction and hands-free control to connected home or hardware products.
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Smart Home Devices
Smart Vehicles
Smart Vehicles
Create personalized in-cabin experiences with natural voice interaction.
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Smart Vehicles
Robots & Drones
Robots & Drones
Power robots with natural voice and multimodal interaction to perceive, respond, and operate in complex environments.
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Make connected devices more intelligent and interactive

Add real-time conversation across robots, companions, toys, wearables, and connected devices.
AI Companions & Entertainment
AI Companions & Entertainment
Bring characters, pets, and toys to life with natural voice conversations and emotionally engaging interactions.
AI Companions & Entertainment
AI Companions & Entertainment
Smart Toys & Educational Devices
Smart Toys & Educational Devices
Build interactive toys, tutors, and learning companions that listen, respond, and adapt to create engaging two-way experiences.
Smart Toys & Educational Devices
Smart Toys & Educational Devices
Assistive & Care Devices
Assistive & Healthcare Devices
Support independent living and elder care with devices that check in, respond, and escalate when needed.
Assistive & Care Devices
Assistive & Healthcare Devices
Smart Home Devices
Smart Home Devices
Add natural voice interaction and hands-free control to connected home or hardware products.
Smart Home Devices
Smart Home Devices
Smart Vehicles
Smart Vehicles
Create personalized in-cabin experiences with natural voice interaction.
Smart Vehicles
Smart Vehicles
Robots & Drones
Robots & Drones
Power robots with natural voice and multimodal interaction to perceive, respond, and operate in complex environments.
Robots & Drones
Robots & Drones

Agora Conversational AI Platform for Physical AI

Human-like AI

Customer Applications

Build intelligent experiences across entertainment, education, healthcare, robotics, smart homes, vehicles, and more.
Convo AI Engine- Scalable, customized voice AI experiences

Agent Control

Manage agents with personas, memory, knowledge, tools, behavior logic, voiceprint, voice cloning, and MCP.
Integrated with OpenAI

Conversational AI Runtime & Infrastructure

Orchestrate ASR, LLM, and TTS with the Conversational AI Engine, which runs on Agora SDRTN® for responsive, real-time communication.
Seamless cloud integration

AI Device & Chipset

Deploy across hardware with IoT SDK, HAL, chipset and OS support, or accelerate development with the Convo AI Device Kit.
“Agora’s AI technology enables toys and robots to interact in a way that feels natural and engaging. With real-time voice processing, emotional AI, and advanced speech capabilities, Agora makes seamless human-machine interaction possible.”
Yuna Pan
Yuna Pan
Co-Founder & CTO, Robopoet
“Agora’s real-time conversational infrastructure gave Pophie the responsiveness, interruption awareness, and interaction stability needed to feel like a living companion.”
Kim Jin
Kim Jin
Product Director, Pophie
“Agora’s AI technology enables toys and robots to interact in a way that feels natural and engaging. With real-time voice processing, emotional AI, and advanced speech capabilities, Agora makes seamless human-machine interaction possible.”
Yuna Pan
Yuna Pan
Co-Founder & CTO, Robopoet
“Agora’s real-time conversational infrastructure gave Pophie the responsiveness, interruption awareness, and interaction stability needed to feel like a living companion.”
Kim Jin
Kim Jin
Product Director, Pophie

FAQs

What is Agora's Physical AI Platform?

It's a full-stack platform combining AI agent creation, a real-time Conversational AI Engine, and a ready-to-deploy Device Kit to bring human-like voice interaction to robots, smart hardware, and IoT devices.

How quickly can I build a prototype?

Teams typically get a working demo in about an hour and deploy an AI agent to hardware in as little as 15 minutes using Agora's Agent Studio.

Can I add conversational AI to my existing hardware?

Yes. Agora’s Hardware Abstraction Layer simplifies integration across supported chipsets, allowing developers to bring conversational AI to existing devices without rebuilding the entire hardware stack.

Do I need to use the Convo AI Device Kit?

No. You can integrate Agora into existing hardware or use the Convo AI Device Kit to accelerate prototyping and development.

What latency and interruption response times can Agora achieve?

In optimized test conditions, Agora has demonstrated end-to-end latency as low as 650 ms worldwide and interruption response times as low as 340 ms. Actual production performance varies based on the AI stack, configuration, device, network conditions, and other implementation factors.

Can my device have its own personality and memory?

Yes. Agora's agent layer supports configurable personas, memory, contextual awareness, reasoning, tool use, and interaction logic for more persistent and engaging experiences.

Can I choose my own LLM or voice provider?

Yes. Agora supports a flexible conversational AI stack with leading and custom ASR, LLM, TTS, RAG, and other AI services.

Ready to give your hardware a voice?

Connect with our experts to discuss your project and find the right path, from AI agent software to a fully integrated hardware kit.