Temi is the sister company to Roboteam,
a leading provider of unmanned ground vehicles. That is also the name of
a cutting-edge personal assistant robot, labelled by the media as the equivalent
of Amazon’s Alexa on wheels. Netguru joined temi to help the company to build
a robot, envisioned to lead the market of home robotics. Challenges included:

1. The temi robot was built from scratch:  hardware, design and software;
2. Neither the temi developers nor Netguru used these particular technologies (e.g. Natural Language Processing) in such a context before;
3. The software part of the temi robot was developed by three teams scattered around the world (Israel, China, and Poland).

To tackle the challenge of building a personal assistant robot from scratch, a lot of effort was put into research and testing. The goal was to find the best use-cases of architectures and technologies for temi. Our joint teams also had to handle voice recognition, video loads, and fast data processing in the cloud. Major steps: 

1. Netguru team focused on R&D and iterative cycles to come up with the best possible technology for any given task;
2. We introduced temi to our agile culture and processes. Bi-weekly sprints, quality assurance, code review, retrospection and planning, backlog grooming, and daily standups were applied to temi;
3. In order to collaborate seamlessly as if we were an integral part of the temi team, we suggested common work grounds: Jira, Slack and Bitrise.
   

The personal assistant robot has received fantastic feedback from the first testers, industry experts and media outlets. Temi also gathered a round of applause in industry events in the US and Europe. Major milestones achieved together with temi’s developers:

1. The Netguru team developed the robot’s operating system (Android-based);
2. We also developed an iOS app and an Android app for controlling the robot;
3. An open Android SDK (temi SDK platform) was built, which allows third-party developers to write custom apps for temi;
4. The Netguru team started to develop a set of apps for temi.