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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Data dive: navigating sensor data for actionable insights
Analyzing sensor data can be challenging. Viam's data management platform empowers analysts with flexible query tools to unlock insights.
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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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Harnessing the power of Tableau to visualize sensor data
Data scientists can turn complex sensor data into insights using Tableau with Viam's data management, creating dynamic visualizations that enhance data comprehension and decision-making.
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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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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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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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5 Award-winning AI projects to spark your next build
Participants in the Viam Challenge transformed everyday devices into smarter, AI-powered tools. The top 5 projects include a smart desk, an AI-assisted smart trash system, and other innovative builds.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Modular capabilities make a smarter camera
Transform your basic security camera into a smart, customizable system using Viam's modular capabilities.
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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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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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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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Smart home projects for a beginner in robotics 2024
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!
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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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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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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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Your guide to Raspberry Pi 5 on Viam
Explore the new Raspberry Pi 5: Enhanced capabilities and easy Viam setup for your next-level robotics and smart device projects.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Build a bedtime songs bot with a custom ML model
Create a robot babysitter with a webcam and machine learning.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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May '23 product roundup
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.
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Tipsy: Create an autonomous drink carrying robot
Create an autonomous drink carrying robot with motion sensing and machine learning.
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Build a confetti bot with a Raspberry Pi
Use a red button to activate a GPIO pin on the board and make a confetti popper go off.
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Create a lazy susan using a DC motor
Wire a DC motor to a board, attach a plate on top, and control the motor to rotate the plate.
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6 easy robotics projects for beginners to kickstart your journey
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.
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A guardian that tracks pets using a Pi, camera, and servo
Make a functional guardian with a servo motor, some LEDs, a camera, and the ML Model and vision service to detect people and pets.
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Modernize a 1980s robot
Modernize the Omnibot 2000 from the 1980s with Viam and AI.
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The road to the future is paved with Viam
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?
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April '23 product roundup
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.
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Robot Block Party 2023: A blast for robot builders and fans
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.
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Meet the engineers on our Fleet Management Team
Meet the engineers who are passionate about making fleet management more accessible to folks in robotics through the Viam platform.
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Inspiring ideation: Takeaways from XchangeIdeas 2023
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.
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March '23 product roundup
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.
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Use object detection to turn your lights on
How to turn a light on when your webcam sees a person.
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Build a smart pet feeder with machine learning
Use a Raspberry Pi, a motor, and machine learning to build a smart pet feeder.
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Build a simple, useful, and affordable outdoor rover
Build and control an affordable, functional outdoor rover (choose 3).
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The winning robots at MakeMIT 2023
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.
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Meet the founders of Viam’s Women & Non-Binary Group
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.
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February '23 product roundup
From SDK dynamic updates to a frame system visualizer, here are some sparkly new updates we've made based on recommendations from our community.
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January '23 product roundup
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.
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Designing the Viam Rover to support faster hardware iteration
Discover the Viam Rover: an ideal robot for learning robotics and various projects, compatible with Raspberry Pi and customizable with add-ons.
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December '22 product roundup
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.
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How we built Try Viam
Behind the scenes of making the Try Viam experience.
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Leading with curiosity at Viam
Viam employees discuss how they use the Learning & Development Budget
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Try Viam: Take over a rover in our robotics lab
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.
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Build a foam dart launcher
Build a foam dart launcher with a wheeled rover and a Raspberry Pi.
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What do you want to build?
Today we announced the Viam public beta, available for use at no cost. Sign up now to get started.
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Recap: Viam’s first summer intern program
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.
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Why Robots?
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?
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The values of Viam
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.
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