New voiceprint, voice cloning, and MCP capabilities bring identity, personality, and greater utility to Physical AI.
Santa Clara, CA — September 8, 2026 — Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a global leader in Real-Time Engagement technology, will showcase the latest evolution of its Conversational AI Platform for Physical AI at IFA 2026, introducing new voiceprint, voice cloning, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities designed to make conversational AI on physical devices more personalized and intelligent.
The showcase demonstrates how developers and smart hardware brands can move beyond rigid, command-based interfaces to create devices that converse naturally, recognize who they’re interacting with, adapt to individual users with personality and context, and take meaningful action.
Agora's Physical AI solution brings together AI agent creation, conversational AI, real-time communications, global networking, and hardware integration in a unified technology stack.
Through Agora’s Hardware Abstraction Layer and ecosystem of chipset and hardware integrations, developers can more easily bring conversational AI experiences to a range of physical products.
Agora's agent management platform provides a central environment for developers to create, customize, manage, and deploy conversational AI agents across supported physical devices, including their persona, language, AI models, voice, and behavior.
Agora is introducing three new capabilities that expand what voice-enabled devices can understand and do:
Agora will also showcase its latest Physical AI hardware and developer tooling, including R1 4GS, which extends conversational AI experiences to devices across Wi-Fi and cellular networks.
Visitors will see Agora’s technology powering conversational experiences across a range of Physical AI devices:
Agora will exhibit alongside customers and ecosystem partners spanning robotics, AI companions, developer hardware, and wearables. Technology and hardware partners, including Seeed Studio, Sentino, Espressif, Speedtech, Quectel, and IntelPro, provide hardware, chipsets, connectivity, and development technologies that expand where developers can deploy Agora-powered conversational experiences.
Agora customers, including Sweekar, Kata Friends, and Robosen, will showcase physical products that use conversational AI to create more natural and personalized user interactions.
“Creating an AI companion like Sweekar requires the conversation to feel as natural and engaging as the physical product itself,” said Irving Gao, Founder and CEO of Takway AI, creator of Sweekar. “Agora gives us a strong conversational foundation without requiring our team to build that infrastructure from the ground up. That allows us to move faster and focus our resources on the experiences that differentiate Sweekar—its evolving personality, memory, and the relationship it builds with each user.”
“Physical AI represents the next major shift in how people interact with technology. As conversational AI moves off the screen and into the devices around us, the companies that stand out will be those that make these interactions feel natural, personal, and genuinely useful,” said Lawrence Wu, Head of IoT at Agora. “For hardware brands, that creates an opportunity to transform everyday devices into differentiated experiences that build stronger engagement and deliver more value over time. Agora is providing the foundation to help developers bring those experiences to market faster and scale them across devices without rebuilding the technology stack for every new product.”
Agora (NASDAQ: API) is redefining Human-AI (H2AI) and Human-Human (H2H) interactions as the global leader in Real-Time Engagement (RTE). Agora provides developers with simple, flexible, and powerful APIs alongside no-code deployment tools to rapidly embed real-time conversational AI, voice, video, interactive live streaming, and chat into applications and IoT devices. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Agora is trusted by over 5,800 organizations worldwide to power best-in-class digital experiences across all industries.
