Mobile Apps and Mobile Operating System for a Personal Assistant Robot
3ft
Tall
Weighing twenty pounds, with a ten-inch screen.
3
Senses combined
Sight, touch and hearing, in one experience.
The client
temi is a home robot three feet tall and twenty pounds in weight, with a ten-inch screen, a sound system designed by Harman Kardon, a voice interface that feels natural and a battery of sensors behind it. The press called it Alexa on wheels.
It shows the weather and the sports results, plays music in the morning, films children playing in the living room, answers calls and lets you talk hands-free on video while you carry on with something else in another room.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
Roboteam, an Israeli company and a leading provider of tactical ground robotic systems, came to Netguru wanting to design and build a device premium enough and affordable enough to take the lead in home robotics.
Challenge 01New ground for both parties
Roboteam has robotics in its DNA and Netguru had delivered across many technologies, but a domestic robot was unfamiliar territory for both.
Challenge 02Everything in real time
Building a robot for the home means everything has to happen as it happens, which changes how the software must be written.
Challenge 03Premium at a reasonable price
The device had to feel premium and stay affordable, which is the constraint the whole project was built against.
What we did
An operating system, two apps and an open SDK
Working with temi’s own developers, the team built the software the robot runs on and the things people use to control it.
Android-based
The operating system the robot runs on was built by our team, on Android.
iOS and Android apps
Applications for both platforms let people control the robot from a phone.
Open to other developers
An open Android SDK lets third-party developers write their own applications for the robot.
A first set built
The team also began developing a set of applications for temi itself.
Client testimonial
We’ve had a long-term relationship with Netguru. Netguru is a great and super-professional service provider, which brought new technologies, new methodology, and a fresh perspective to our project
Tech stackThe tools that made it possible
01
Android
The base of the robot’s operating system and of its SDK.
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