Latvian Company Working on a Robot Teaching Assistant

Latvian company FIV has joined the innovation voucher state support programme to create technologies which may, in future, change the teaching process at schools and pre-schools. In November 2022, the company concluded a contract with the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) on a project aimed at developing a new technological solution – a digital teaching assistant with centralised content management software.

Created in collaboration with Riga Technical University, this innovative technology provides online support for teachers allowing them to tailor a customised approached to the educational needs of every student. The digital assistant helps adapt lessons and allows the teacher to spot situations that call for an individualised approach. 

Efforts invested in the project have already yielded the first results: the product can be applied in practice in leading lessons. However, Aleksejs Jurenoks, researcher at the company, says that there is still immense work to be done in improving algorithms, enhancing content and various other technical details. The product is expected to reach the commercialisation stage within 16-24 months.

The company stresses the usefulness of the innovation voucher programme not only for the project at hand, but also other research-related projects. “Innovation vouchers often open the door to development in projects requiring research. Research is a risk: it may not always be possible to commercialise it, but these tools allow companies to take the risk and develop new technologies. Everybody wins in the end – both the companies, and the state,” Edgars Babris, EU project consultant at EB Technologies, a partner of FIV, explains. 

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his article has been produced with financial support from the European Regional Development Fund