Approaches to augmenting data and challenges with limited datasets
Data augmentation is a technique used to increase the amount of data available for machine learning models when faced with limited datasets. In the fiel...
Wander App Becomes Open Source
“In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.“ words of Linus Torvalds. Snowdog is thril...
Is Your Idea for an App Worth a Billion Dollars?
There are around 2 million applications ready to be downloaded on Apple’s App Store and at least thrice as many apps that failed to get there. How do yo...
Diving into Retail with a Humanoid Robot: Our First Adventure
By removing all shoes from the shelves, eObuwie.pl has done the opposite to what most shoe stores do. They have taken the success of their online eComme...
Revitalizing Retail Commerce: Exploring the Impact of Kiosk Shopping and Interactive Robotics
Last year we worked with eobuwie.pl, one of the largest online shoe retailers in Poland and Central Europe to open a physical shoe store without any pro...
Unveiling the Mechanism: How Robots Recognize Faces and Pepper's Journey to Remember and Greet Familiar Visages
Today’s world is focused on face detection more than ever before. Just take a look at latest release of smartphones; most of them now allow you to unloc...
Turning your Android app into a kiosk - Step by step tutorial
Kiosks devices have become an increasingly common sight in public places such as train stations, museums, and hotels. These devices can offer a range of...
How to manage background tasks with the Task Scheduler in iOS 13?
The article discusses Apple's BackgroundTasks framework, which can be used to schedule and control the execution conditions of background jobs. The fram...
Building a GitHub search app with Combine framework - Part 2
If you're an iOS developer, you're probably familiar with Apple's Combine framework, which provides a declarative way to handle asynchronous events. In ...
Teaching a robot new languages - How to do it?
We love working with cool technologies, and the Snowdog robotics department is no different. Our work with Pepper has taken us to many different events ...
How to speed up your daily development? 37 Xcode Tips and Shortcuts - The guide to becoming a pro Xcode user
Learn how to navigate Xcode like a pro with our guide to the 37 most important tips for improved efficiency and productivity. Don't miss out on these po...
Diffable Data Sources - First look
iOS Data Handling Evolution: An Introduction to Diffable Data Sources. Handling data source for table view or collection view in iOS 12 and earlier requ...