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Diatom’s 2018 Year in Review
International award winner In 2018 we received a RAR Recommended certificate from the RAR Digital Awards 2018, thanks to our clients who rated us as one of the best software development companies in Europe. Diatom has offered custom software development services since 2004, and our team does their best to get clients’ satisfaction. RAR recommended … Continue reading
Diatom Enterprises attended RIGA COMM 2018
We are very delighted to announce that Diatom Enterprises had a great experience attending the RIGA COMM 2018 conference as an exhibitor, where we met many people from international companies around the world. The conference was held on the 11th and 12th of October and was very well organized. RIGA COMM is an annual tech and business conference … Continue reading
Diatom Enterprises attended PropTech Riga 2018
PropTech Riga is an annual conference within the framework of the international forum that gathers professionals in Riga to discuss technologies that are shaping the future of the real estate industry. On the second day of the conference, our Sales and Mobilization Director, Alekseys Beloglazovs gave a speech on the topic “How early real estate and property management solutions … Continue reading
Robot video blogger teaches programming
The Diatom Enterprises team has launched a new project with its robot intern, Pepper, to make videos about software engineering for beginner and junior developers. Pepper is a humanoid robot who is capable of recognizing and identifying human faces and emotions. Diatom Enterprises develops custom software for Pepper to control her speech, behaviour and features. The team is working on a new … Continue reading
Developing an application for Pepper – problems and solutions
As a Latvian custom software development company, Diatom has been working in web, mobile and desktop development for 14 years. Since 2016 we have been deeply interested in robotics, artificial intelligence and automation and purchased the first humanoid robot, Pepper, in order to explore the opportunities of developing software for robots. In this article, we would like to share our experience with the main issues we encountered while developing an application for Pepper for one of our clients … Continue reading
Should we be scared of robots or not?
At Diatom Enterprises we believe that people have nothing to fear from robots. We think they are created to help us, assist with difficult things and be companions, team members or friends… but not to replace human beings. In that regard, recently, we were asked to present a lecture on automation and robotics to a … Continue reading
Diatom’s 2017 Year in Review
This is actually one of our favorite activities, because memories, words, sometimes even things done are forgotten and lost over time. However, that which is written with a pen – or in today’s world, with the keyboard – stays if not forever, at least for a long time. The year of 2017 has been varied. … 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
Software Development for the Pepper Robot
Pepper is one of the first humanoid robots on the market that is capable of identifying the principal human emotions: joy, anger and surprise. She is able to scan non-verbal language, such as the angle of a person’s head. Pepper is a very friendly robot who reaches out to communicate with humans But one of … 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
Our Software development company – Year 2016 in Review
There is a good tradition to review the expiring year at the end of December. Some people do it on Facebook, some individually reflect on the passing year, some discuss it with colleagues or family members. This tradition is beneficial for companies as well as it gives a company an understanding of what has been … Continue reading
We say “Artificial Intelligence” but we mean…
I would like to apologize at once to those who spent years of researching AI areas, such as speech recognition, or working on AI in trading systems. Giving myself over to thoughts, I would like to start a subject about this. In the scientific world, one starts out from seeking correct definitions of terms, which … Continue reading