Viam Announces Series B

Inspired by our Show & Tells and want to contribute to one yourself?Our innovative team is growing.

Introducing the Viam Challenge—an opportunity to enhance everyday devices with the power of AI. Gain practical experience, network with engineers & builders, and win up to $2,000 in prizes.

Viam's streamlined organizational logic simplifies tasks such as setup, diagnostics, performance monitoring, code deployment, and user access control for machines or groups in a fleet.

Empower any Android machine to leverage Viam’s core capabilities in fleet and data management to enable unified fleet monitoring, interoperability, and AI model customization across diverse devices.

Viam's groundbreaking partnership with the Whale and Vessel Safety Task Force (WAVS) brings AI to the edge on boats to protect marine life.

Viam allows businesses to collect and view all telemetry data from a diverse fleet on a single dashboard, enabling them to remotely run diagnostics and carry out predictive maintenance.

Explore Viam's feedback control for smarter machine interaction, enabling precise movements and adjustments based on environmental conditions. Perfect for enhancing your smart machine projects.

Discover how smart monitoring & automation transformed our office's HVAC, optimizing energy use & ending temperature disputes with Viam's tech.

Cloud Build lets you start on any one platform and ship to every platform. Learn more about our newest feature in our blog post.

Discover how one of our Developer Advocates, alongside a pastry chef, created a smart, interactive cake that blends robotics with baking for a unique dessert experience. Full tutorial in the blog.

Create a custom AI assistant with local data security and no usage charges in less than 50 lines of code.

Transform your basic security camera into a smart, customizable system using Viam's modular capabilities.

Elevate your smart machines with ML models from our Modular Registry. Explore the process of discovering, integrating, and deploying these models to unlock efficiency and capabilities.

Viam simplifies connecting edge devices to the cloud, ensuring robust fleet/data management. Discover the full potential in our comprehensive blog post.

Explore Viam's efficient data upload with Founder & CEO, Eliot Horowitz! Transform your smart home experience while cutting cloud costs. Dive into Eliot's insightful demo.

Discover easy DIY smart home projects for robotics beginners in 2024 with Viam! Build a smart pet feeder, facial recognition security, and a drink-carrying robot. Simple and perfect for starters!

Discover Viam's latest feature: Data Querying APIs. Effortlessly collect and analyze data from your smart machines to gain a bird’s-eye view of your fleet’s health and performance.

Discover the comprehensive benefits around the journey of parenthood at Viam, like fertility aid and 20-week gender-neutral parental leave.

Explore Viam's enhanced datasets for streamlined data curation and model training, enhancing your ML projects with ease and precision.

Explore the new Raspberry Pi 5: Enhanced capabilities and easy Viam setup for your next-level robotics and smart device projects.

Discover how our Product Manager, Natalia, created a Menorah Lighting Robot and a Mobile App in just a few days with Viam's Vision, Motion, Data Management, and Machine Learning Services.

Discover how to create a hassle-free, automated plant caretaker with Viam, ESP32, and cloud logic in our latest blog. We'll guide you step by step in building a budget-friendly, smart watering robot.

Discover how Viam's software developers are pushing the boundaries of smart device and robotics development through our unique 20% Project Program. Read more about their groundbreaking projects!

Explore how Viam's open source Modular Registry simplifies building smart machines, enabling faster product launches, interoperability, and scalability for a diverse range of hardware.

Discover the intricacies of our latest creation! Dive deep into the hardware assembly, the crafting of our ML model, the software configuration, and the lessons we learned along the way.

Discover how to create navigational maps for your robot with Viam! Dive into SLAM, the power of Cartographer, and the future of autonomous robots.

Discover how Viam integrates with Revolution Pi, transforming industrial controls with flexible programming, easy setup, and remote operation.

We’re shining a spotlight on Team Spyder who achieved their ambitious goal to transform an old motorized Audi Spyder toy car into a mind-controlled marvel. Dive into their Q+A to learn more.

Just like geese heading north in the summer, we joined the flock and made our way to Hack the North for a non-stop, 32-hour hackathon. We've put together the best bits for you to check out and get ins

Explore how Viam's Modular Registry revolutionizes continuous integration and deployment, streamlining the process via seamless integration with GitHub Actions.

Meet Viam's Data & ML team! Explore their journeys, challenges, day-to-days, and the passion driving our smart machines.

The modular registry is powerful for both general code deployment and for leveraging code written by another community or business. See it in action with our ROS2 integration.

Explore the minds behind Project LearnSafe: the smart machine leverages that machine learning to identify potential school threats and quickly alert the authorities.

Dive into our Q&A to uncover the inspiration and intellect behind Eco Lens: an application merging sustainability with computer vision to identify recyclable items.

This month, our team packed our bags and landed in Pennsylvania for the legendary PennApps—the nation's first student-run college hackathon.

With the Viam mobile application, remote control and management of your smart machine fleet is now in the palm of your hand.

Senior Engineer Ethan Look shares insights into the creation of a smart machine, designed by him and his team, to detect unattended mugs and promote tidiness in the office.

Have a spread out robot fleet? With the Viam platform's ROS 2 integration, you can monitor and debug ROS 2 logging through Viam's web UI.

This month, we partnered with NVIDIA to spotlight our cutting-edge ML Model Service: an integrated solution that makes training and deploying ML models on your smart machines faster and easier than ev

Viam's modular registry makes it easy for developers to create and customize the smart machines they want to see in the world.

An in-depth conversation with some of the interns who spent their summer with us at Viam!

The Viam platform can be integrated with ROS2. In this post we'll show how we leveraged the integration to remotely control a robot through a mobile application.

Learn how our CEO Eliot Horowitz turned his simple pet feeder into a smart home device.

Configure and receive alerts on your mobile phone when something happens to your robot with Viam.

In addition to storing the data generated by your robot, Viam also enables the straightforward ingestion of any external relevant data you might want to have alongside it through APIs.

If you are a web/mobile software developer or know how to code and are thinking about delving into robotics to start a company or even just to have fun, this article is for you!

Viam leverages software engineering principles to simplify the creation and maintenance of robots. In this post, we show how to easily visualize robot data in a dashboard.

Create a robot babysitter with a webcam and machine learning.

With the Viam Flutter SDK, you can easily build mobile or cross-platform apps for your customers to interface with your robots—whether your robots are ROS-based, non-ROS-based, or some combination.

At Viam, we're excited about helping companies build better and brighter robots. In this blog post, we'll share how Viam and ROS can play together in various ways to help you do just that.

We’re pulling back the curtain to share how we built our robotic claw game using Viam (including a tutorial!) and what our team learned along the way.

Now you can view your sensor data right within the Viam app! Check out other updates too like being able to connect ODrive motor controllers and custom robotic arms as Viam modules.

Our Head of People shares a tangible guide to creating your company values, along with insights from shaping our culture as we work together to make robotics more accessible.

We recently had the absolute pleasure of hosting a special Ask-Me-Anything with none other than Simone Giertz, the superstar inventor and robot maker.

Now you can train object detection models on your image data right within Viam. Check out how in this post, along with some other ways we’ve made it easier to control your robots.

Create an autonomous drink carrying robot with motion sensing and machine learning.

Use a red button to activate a GPIO pin on the board and make a confetti popper go off.

From a plant watering robot to an AI companion robot, we've handpicked six robotics projects are designed to be accessible and enjoyable for those just getting started in robotics.

Make a functional guardian with a servo motor, some LEDs, a camera, and the ML Model and vision service to detect people and pets.

Modernize the Omnibot 2000 from the 1980s with Viam and AI.

Today we're launching Viam to the general public. Three years ago, we started Viam with a very simple question: With all the promise of robotics, where are the robots?

We released a ton of new features in April! Now you can use any TFLite model, configure the Ufactory Lite 6 arm, directly access encoders, and more on Viam.

As the robotics space continues to evolve, events like Silicon Valley Robotics' annual Robot Block Party improve access to robotics and provide an important platform for the exchange of ideas.

Meet the engineers who are passionate about making fleet management more accessible to folks in robotics through the Viam platform.

Our team's takeaways from the exciting ideathon, hosted by XchangePgh, where a diverse group of individuals came together to explore a myriad of game-changing ideas.

You can now train and deploy image classification ML models using your robots’ data, all within Viam! We’ve also added constraints to our built-in motion planning algorithm.

How to turn a light on when your webcam sees a person.

Build and control an affordable, functional outdoor rover (choose 3).

From an autonomous ping-pong ball collector to a local air pollution tracker, the teams at MIT’s hardware-focused hackathon this year built some impressive robots with the help of Viam.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’d love to introduce you to the founders of our Women & Non-Binary Employee Resource Group to share how this group helps us Succeed Through Diversity.

From SDK dynamic updates to a frame system visualizer, here are some sparkly new updates we've made based on recommendations from our community.

2023 is off to the races at Viam! We had a busy January working with early customers on their robotics strategy, expanding our documentation and tutorials, and building with the Viam Community.

Viam supports faster hardware iteration and prototyping

Happy holidays! It’s been a busy few months since we released our public beta. We’ve been learning from our growing community and rapidly iterating on our platform.

Behind the scenes of making the Try Viam experience

Viam employees discuss how they use the Learning & Development Budget

Robot takeover! Try Viam by taking over a Viam Rover in our robotics lab to get an instant feel for how to control and program a robot with Viam.

Build a foam dart launcher with a wheeled rover and a Raspberry Pi.

Today we announced the Viam public beta, available for use at no cost. Sign up now to get started.

In the summer of 2022, Viam launched our first official internship program! Before they left, I had the chance to interview some of our interns about their time here this summer.

We are getting ready to share the Viam platform with the world and it feels like a good time to answer a question I’ve gotten more than a few times since leaving MongoDB: why robots?

Viam was founded to open up robotics to everyone, everywhere. Since then, we’ve grown to over 40 employees. As we continue to scale, we felt it was important to establish our company values.

In June, I announced that Viam’s raised a seed round led by Union Square Ventures. Since then we’ve brought on extraordinary talent, built, tested, and launched our platform, and engaged with external

To fulfill Viam’s vision, we are excited to announce that we have raised a $12M seed round. Robotics has enormous potential for the world, but requires new software and hardware infrastructure to make