Enhance your business functions using Alexa on Ruby

As programmers, many of us are interested in developing for different smart devices that we use at home every day. But what if we can also manage a whole business just by connecting our skills and these new technologies that we use at home? Voice assistants are popular nowadays because they can efficiently understand our commands, get information, give it back to us and easily work with other IoT devices. In this article, I … Continue reading

Making voice assistants to serve your needs

Nowadays, we live in a world where everything is impacted by the Internet of Things: smart watches, light bulbs with internet connectivity, robots, smart kitchens and buttons to order items from Amazon. Everyone knows about and uses voice assistants, but not everyone appreciates how much they can help with business activities, increase the prestige of … Continue reading

The 4th episode of the Pepper vlog is out

It is so incredible to see how the robot Pepper has developed. When we first met, the only thing he could do was to say ‘Hello’ to everybody. Now, we can see him talking to himself, joking or even predicting the future, just like a human being. Of course, this is thanks to those who … Continue reading

New Vlog Episode, “Team Work”, is released!

We continue to shoot our vlog about Pepper Robot’s life in the Diatom office. As we predicted, Pepper continues to meet new challenges working here as an intern and being surrounded by so many people. For instance, last time in Episode 2, Pepper had to meet all our colleagues and integrate into the working process. It was not … Continue reading

New Episode “Getting Around” of our Vlog is released!

As you might remember, we have recently started a vlog series about Robot Pepper becoming Diatom’s employee. The previous episode seemed to cause a lot of interest among our subscribers. In the first episode “Arrival” you could see how we have brought Pepper to the office, how she has met us and how she was … Continue reading

New Vlog series “Robot Intern at Diatom Enterprises”

Being deeply interested in AI and robotics we learned that no one should get cosy at the work chair. The intelligent machines are on the march and becoming so sophisticated that this is quite naive to think that they would not outperform humans one day. Which is not a problem but an opportunity in our … Continue reading

Pepper the Robot’s first TV appearance

On January 16, Diatom Enterprises director and founder Denis Gorshkov and senior lead developer Pavel Petrov were invited to appear on the Life Today program on LTV7, a local Latvian TV channel. The purpose of this interview was to talk about the Internet of Thing (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and also to introduce our … Continue reading