The new generation of robots will collaborate with humans in many different aspects of the daily life: from domestic tasks to elderly, health and child care. Communication is hereby essential. More than 60% of our communication is non-verbal, mostly by facial expressions. Therefore it is very important to develop robots that are able to reproduce and interpret these expressions. Crucial for those new technologies is that the human plays a central role in the communication, this infers that the robot should adapt its communication means to the one of humans and not the other way around as is the case now with computers and mobile phones. Probo will serve as research platform for cognitive human-robot interaction studies. Probo has a high huggable appearance because specifically children are targeted. Probo will for example assist in providing information and moral support to hospitalized children.