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Enterprise
12.6.24

Debunking common misconceptions about edge IoT

Edge IoT brings data processing closer to its source, reducing latency and enhancing resilience. Discover how edge computing complements the cloud and adapts to diverse environments with Viam.
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Product
12.4.24

Platform spotlight: December

We’re building Viam to help teams unlock the power of AI, data, and automation in the physical world. Learn about the latest platform updates.
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Enterprise
11.26.24

Reasons to invest in a data monitoring tool for IoT success

Discover how data monitoring and observability tools enhance IoT systems with real-time insights, reduced downtime, smarter decisions, and improved customer satisfaction—all in one powerful solution.
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Product
11.25.24

Simplifying machine data management with in-app visualizations

Viam’s in-app visualizations streamline machine data management with customizable dashboards for real-time insights. Utilize actionable metrics to boost performance and improve collaboration.
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Product
11.20.24

Why IoT needs edge computing for growth

IoT edge computing processes data locally for real-time insights, reduced latency, and improved reliability. Discover why it’s essential for industries needing speed and efficiency.
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Product
11.15.24

5 ways to take your IoT sensor data to the next level

Discover how IoT sensors and smart sensor data collection can do more than monitor—boost efficiency, automate actions, and drive smarter decisions with practical, real-world applications.
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Cool Stuff
11.12.24

Data observability in IoT systems: A full guide

Learn how data teams in IoT environments use data observability to maintain the health and performance of their data systems and pipelines. We share how it works, best practices, and use cases.
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Cool Stuff
11.8.24

How to optimize sensor data collection for IoT management

Master sensor data collection and IoT data management. Discover methods to streamline data access, centralize insights, and improve decision-making in IoT.
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Tutorials
11.6.24

QR code detection and decoding using computer vision

Learn how to use QR code detection with Viam to set up, detect, and decode QR codes in IoT projects. From inventory tracking to AR, start automating actions on detection with tools like pyzbar.
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Product
11.5.24

Integrating with Home Assistant for advanced IoT home automation

Elevate your IoT home automation with Viam's new integration for Home Assistant. Now, securely train ML models to create context-aware automations, from personalized home setups to smart arenas.
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Product
11.4.24

Introducing AnchorSafe: How Viam brings real-time drift detection data into the NjordLINK boating app

Viam’s edge data capture enables Digital Yacht's NjordLINK app to deliver real-time anchor drift alerts with AnchorSafe, providing boaters confidence and instant notifications from anywhere.
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Enterprise
11.4.24

Improve food & beverage output with modern software platforms and AI

Discover how AI and computer vision are used to provide real-time QA in F&B facilities and point-of-sale. Streamline production lines and ensure ingredient accuracy with modern software.
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Community
11.1.24

Best Raspberry Pi camera projects to try in 2024

Check out these Raspberry Pi camera project ideas, from home automation to smart monitoring systems. Implement object detection models and AI to build innovative physical devices.
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Cool Stuff
11.1.24

Top computer vision projects to explore in 2024

Explore top computer vision projects in 2024, from beginner to advanced ideas like object tracking and home energy optimization. Discover engaging ways to build real-world skills in computer vision.
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Tutorials
10.30.24

IoT data visualization: Tips to turn data into insights

Learn practical tips for IoT data visualization and sensor data collection. With tools like Tableau and Grafana, transform raw data into actionable insights and real-time monitoring capabilities.
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Cool Stuff
10.29.24

5 software deployment disasters and how to avoid them

Software deployment to physical devices can be complex and error-prone. Explore five real-world deployment failures and learn best practices to improve reliability and prevent similar issues.
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Product
10.21.24

IoT sensor data: How to navigate and use it effectively

Explore how IoT sensor data powers automation, monitoring, and analytics, and learn to leverage it for real-time insights and efficiency improvements.
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Cool Stuff
10.17.24

Raspberry Pi 4 vs Raspberry Pi 5: Which one should you choose?

The blog compares the Raspberry Pi 4 vs 5, highlighting the Pi 5’s improved CPU, connectivity, and performance for advanced tasks like AI. The Pi 4 is better for low-power, budget-friendly projects.
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Cool Stuff
9.30.24

Using AI to reduce home energy usage

Looking to optimize your home energy usage? Check out how our Developer Advocate, Matt, uses AI and a simple hardware setup to improve his family’s lifestyle and reduce their carbon footprint.
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News
9.25.24

The 30 million new neighbors protecting our city

Billion Oyster Project has grown 30 million oysters in tanks on Governors Island. We connected cameras and sensors in these tanks to the VIam platform. I'd like to share more about this partnership.
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Tutorials
9.24.24

DIY Raspberry Pi automatic dog or cat feeder: Full tutorial

Build your own DIY automatic dog or cat feeder with a Raspberry Pi! This full tutorial covers everything from hardware setup to training a custom machine learning model to recognize your pet.
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Tutorials
9.18.24

Object detection python tutorial: Automate your lights

Learn how to automate your lights with this object detection tutorial using Python and Viam's computer vision service. Perfect for beginners looking to explore smart home projects!
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Tutorials
9.16.24

Automated agriculture: Building a DIY hydroponic gardening system

Learn how our Developer Advocate, Arielle, built a DIY hydroponic system using the Kratky method. This hydroponic gardening approach allows for growing herbs and vegetables with minimal maintenance.
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Community
9.13.24

Raspberry Pi AI project ideas: 5 Award-winning builds to try

Explore these top 5 Raspberry Pi AI project ideas, from home automation to waste management systems. Learn how to turn everyday devices into AI-powered tools and elevate your skills in the process.
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Cool Stuff
9.12.24

Breathe easy: how home automation can improve your air quality

Home automation is one way to monitor and improve your indoor air quality, like with air purifiers that automatically adjust based on connected sensors that provide real-time updates on air quality
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Product
9.11.24

Launch: Custom training scripts on Viam

We just launched support for training models with custom Python scripts, allowing you to control the model training process on Viam and leverage any Python-based framework.
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Cool Stuff
9.11.24

Object detection sensors to use on your next build (2024)

Discover the best object detection sensors and cameras for your next build. Learn about different detection sensor options, including object detection cameras, to enhance accuracy and efficiency.
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Cool Stuff
8.29.24

Image classification in machine learning: A full guide (2024)

Discover how image classification in machine learning, including deep learning methods, works. Learn the difference from object detection, how to label images, and deploy models to your machines.
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Product
8.26.24

Adding interoperable AI at every stage of the food supply chain

Learn how Viam's no-code configuration and standardized APIs streamline AI integration, using a fictional grocery chain, FoodChoice, to manage and deploy models for improved produce monitoring.
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Life at Viam
8.26.24

Inside Viam’s 2024 internship program

13 summer interns joined Viam to tackle real-world engineering challenges, contribute to impactful projects, and gain hands-on experience in shaping the future of robotics. Read their stories!
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Product
8.21.24

Building smarter vision systems: Deploying Hugging Face models on Viam

Viam has opened possibilities for using HuggingFace models on machines in the real world through the custom vision service integration on our registry.
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Cool Stuff
8.20.24

YOLO model for real-time object detection: A full guide

Discover how YOLO models excel in real-time object detection, from sports tracking to security. This guide covers YOLO's evolution, key features, and examples to help you use its capabilities.
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Product
8.16.24

Real-time robot control with gRPC and WebRTC

Robots work in places with varying network conditions, from stable ethernet to inconsistent cellular or satellite connections. Learn how to use gRPC and WebRTC for more reliable communications.
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Cool Stuff
8.13.24

Object detection guide from a computer vision expert (2024)

Learn the essentials of object detection within computer vision, including how bounding boxes work and their role in the different detection algorithms, directly from a computer vision expert.
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Tutorials
8.12.24

Build your own security camera system: A step-by-step guide

Learn how to build your own security camera system. This guide helps you create a DIY security camera with Raspberry Pi, featuring customizable triggers and actions using Viam's modular capabilities.
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Tutorials
8.5.24

DIY home automation projects featuring Raspberry Pi (2024)

Discover easy DIY home automation projects for 2024 featuring Raspberry Pi. Learn how to build a Raspberry Pi cat feeder, home assistant robot, and security camera from scratch.
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Cool Stuff
7.18.24

Building a smarter sprinkler system

Here’s a project for a smarter sprinkler system. Learn how to make the devices around you smarter with Viam, a simple and intuitive universal software platform. 
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Product
7.3.24

Empowering developers to harness sensor data for advanced analytics

Data from sensors offers a treasure trove of insights from the physical world for data scientists. Learn how Viam empowers developers to harness sensor data.
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Life at Viam
6.26.24

Get to know the Marketing Team fueling Viam’s growth

Explore insights from six creative marketing minds driving Viam’s awareness, community engagement, and platform usage.
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Enterprise
6.25.24

Protecting your machine data: Viam's commitment to security

At Viam, we prioritize stringent security protocols, including user authentication, role-based access, and end-to-end encryption to ensure robust smart machine and data protection.
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Enterprise
6.24.24

Using machine learning to detect truly meaningful factory anomalies

Viam ML pipelines improve anomaly detection and reduce alert fatigue through selective device data capture, flexible model training, and easy deployment of any model, enhancing factory decisionmaking.
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Product
6.20.24

Train fast computer vision models with slower multimodal AI

AI models trained on billions of parameters are very capable, but not always suitable for real-time use. Learn how you can train fast computer vision models with slower multimodal AI.
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Enterprise
6.18.24

A unified solution to capture, query, and visualize machine data

Learn how Viam provides seamless interoperability between any kinds of machines, standardizes data from diverse sources, and supports flexible querying and third-party visualizations.
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Enterprise
6.17.24

Data interoperability: The key to driving smart industrial automation

Viam's platform enables data interoperability between diverse factory machines, allowing for efficient data capture, analysis, and ML model deployment to improve productivity and prevent downtime.
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Product
6.6.24

Enhancing mechanical engineering testing with sensor automation

Explore how sensor automation enhances mechanical engineering testing, improves reliability, and speeds up prototyping.
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News
5.20.24

Viam joins the Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA)

Viam has joined the Open Source Robotics Alliance to promote interoperability and innovation, simplify automation, and support a more diverse developer community.
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Product
5.17.24

Continuous improvements over-the-air with Viam for Android

Viam running on Android allows new capabilities to be added and managed over-the-air across your fleet.
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News
5.15.24

How businesses and startups easily manage fleet data

Tennibot's autonomous tennis assistant robot shows how Viam helps companies seamlessly capture data from diverse hardware and transform it into insights that enhance the customer experience.
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Life at Viam
4.17.24

Showcasing creativity and innovation at Show & Tell

Inspired by our Show & Tells and want to contribute to one yourself?Our innovative team is growing.
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Community
4.2.24

The Viam Challenge: Hack an everyday device with AI‍

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.
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Product
3.28.24

Organize and manage diverse hardware with Viam Fleet

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.
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News
3.26.24

Announcing Series B

Today, Viam announced the close of $45M Series B financing, an exciting milestone to fuel the company mission to accelerate AI, data, and innovation across robotics, IoT, and smart machines.
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Product
3.25.24

Viam for Android: Enhancing human-machine interaction

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.
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News
3.21.24

Bringing AI to the edge

Viam's groundbreaking partnership with the Whale and Vessel Safety Task Force (WAVS) brings AI to the edge on boats to protect marine life.
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Product
3.15.24

Enable predictive maintenance and remote diagnostics on any machine

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.
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Product
2.26.24

Use feedback control with Viam components

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.
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Cool Stuff
2.23.24

Boost office efficiency with smart HVAC automation

Discover how smart monitoring & automation transformed our office's HVAC, optimizing energy use & ending temperature disputes with Viam's tech.
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Product
2.20.24

Publish modules to multiple platforms with Cloud Build

Cloud Build lets you start on any one platform and ship to every platform. Learn more about our newest feature in our blog post.
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Tutorials
2.16.24

Creating the future of desserts: an interactive smart cake

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.
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Tutorials
2.14.24

Practical AI: Local LLM and machine learning for plant care

Create a custom AI assistant with local data security and no usage charges in less than 50 lines of code.
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Product
2.4.24

Machine learning models now available in the modular registry

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.
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Product
2.1.24

Keeping smart machines and compute functioning smoothly at the edge

Viam simplifies connecting edge devices to the cloud, ensuring robust fleet/data management. Discover the full potential in our comprehensive blog post.
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Product
1.25.24

Improving smart machine ROI with selective data capture

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.
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Product
1.19.24

Simplified data collection and querying for smart machines

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.
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Life at Viam
12.27.23

Empowering parenthood: Viam's employee benefits

Discover the comprehensive benefits around the journey of parenthood at Viam, like fertility aid and 20-week gender-neutral parental leave.
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Product
12.22.23

Enhanced datasets: Viam's simplified data solution

Explore Viam's enhanced datasets for streamlined data curation and model training, enhancing your ML projects with ease and precision.
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Tutorials
12.8.23

Build a menorah lighting robot

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.
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Tutorials
12.1.23

Build a plant watering robot with webhooks and an ESP32

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.
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Life at Viam
11.28.23

Innovate at Viam: The 20% project initiative

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!
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Product
11.15.23

Viam’s Registry: Powering open source hardware

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.
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Tutorials
10.31.23

Built with Viam: The ML-powered smart candy dispenser

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.
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Product
10.30.23

Looking to build a map for your autonomous robot? Here’s your guide to SLAM and Cartographer

Discover how to create navigational maps for your robot with Viam! Dive into SLAM, the power of Cartographer, and the future of autonomous robots.
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Product
10.26.23

PLC support: Giving access to industrial control systems

Discover how Viam integrates with Revolution Pi, transforming industrial controls with flexible programming, easy setup, and remote operation.
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Community
10.24.23

Build backstories: The autonomous car powered by your mind

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.
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Community
10.22.23

Highlights and builds from Hack the North

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
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ROS & Viam
10.16.23

Seamless CI/CD with Viam's Registry

Explore how Viam's Modular Registry revolutionizes continuous integration and deployment, streamlining the process via seamless integration with GitHub Actions.
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Life at Viam
10.13.23

Journeys and insights of Viam's Data & ML Team

Meet Viam's Data & ML team! Explore their journeys, challenges, day-to-days, and the passion driving our smart machines.
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ROS & Viam
10.12.23

Creating a ROS2 integration module and deploying it to a robot

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.
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Community
10.10.23

Build backstories: The smart device that aids in school safety

Explore the minds behind Project LearnSafe: the smart machine leverages that machine learning to identify potential school threats and quickly alert the authorities.
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Community
10.4.23

Build Backstories: The smart device that helps with recycling

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.
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News
9.29.23

3 trailblazing hackathon builds with Viam at PennApps

This month, our team packed our bags and landed in Pennsylvania for the legendary PennApps—the nation's first student-run college hackathon.
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Product
9.28.23

Manage your fleet from anywhere with Viam's mobile app

With the Viam mobile application, remote control and management of your smart machine fleet is now in the palm of your hand.
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Tutorials
9.27.23

Improving office tidiness with robots

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.
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ROS & Viam
9.18.23

Consolidate ROS logging with Viam

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.
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Tutorials
9.18.23

Viam & NVIDIA: Raising the bar on smart machine ML

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
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Product
9.12.23

Announcing the modular registry

Viam's modular registry makes it easy for developers to create and customize the smart machines they want to see in the world.
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Life at Viam
9.6.23

Meet our 2023 interns

An in-depth conversation with some of the interns who spent their summer with us at Viam!
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ROS & Viam
9.1.23

Integrate your ROS2 robot with 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.
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Tutorials
8.28.23

Making smart home devices even smarter

Learn how our CEO Eliot Horowitz turned his simple pet feeder into a smart home device.
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Tutorials
8.28.23

Instant robot alerts on your phone for remediation

Configure and receive alerts on your mobile phone when something happens to your robot with Viam.
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Tutorials
8.24.23

Adding third-party API data into 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.
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Tutorials
8.18.23

How software development skills fast-track your path to robotics

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!
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ROS & Viam
8.18.23

Build a robotics web app with TypeScript & Viam on ROS

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.
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Tutorials
8.18.23

Build a bedtime songs bot with a custom ML model

Create a robot babysitter with a webcam and machine learning.
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ROS & Viam
8.14.23

How Viam provides a mobile pathway for ROS robots

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.
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ROS & Viam
7.31.23

Extend ROS with Viam

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.
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Tutorials
7.17.23

How we built the robotic claw game for ICRA

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.
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Product
7.5.23

June '23 product roundup

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.
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Life at Viam
6.23.23

A playbook for creating meaningful company values

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.
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Community
6.16.23

AMA with Simone Giertz: Passion, creativity, and grit in robotics

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.
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