“One of the largest challenges our customers face is how to test mobile robots repeatedly and build quickly as they're doing it. We looked for a partner who could make it easy for our customers to develop these specific applications.”
Mobile robots have the opportunity to change the status quo in several key industries from food delivery to factory automation, but we’ve yet to see them deployed at scale. With deep expertise in engineering electric and autonomous vehicles, Intermode saw an opportunity to build a hardware foundation for the future of mobile robotics—the Modal.
Intermode built the Modal from the ground up to be modular, durable, and most importantly reliable. Their customers can customize the Modal to suit specific business needs and Intermode covers the rest, maintenance and service included. Intermode eliminates hardware burdens for businesses, allowing them to focus on what they do best.
In working with their customers, Intermode noticed that many needed extra software support to get their robots up and running quickly. They set out to find a software platform that could:
“Instead of spending a lot of time developing something custom, our customers can use Viam to have the Modal execute simple actions or to validate something in the real world. The teleoperation feature has specifically been very helpful.”
Viam stood out as a software partner with its component-based approach to robotics hardware design. By using Viam’s exposed APIs, Intermode implemented the full Modal rover as a custom Base component. Abstracting the CAN bus protocol used by the rover in this way made it easy to securely control the Modal in any programming language of choice.
Intermode’s CEO, Arnold Kadiu, describes this seamless connection between Intermode and Viam as two sides of the same coin: Intermode makes the hardware aspects of mobile robotics easy for businesses, while Viam simplifies the software aspects to accelerate development.
“We share Viam with our customers from the start to help them accelerate their development journey and how they’re approaching the software for building mobile robots.”
By leveraging Viam’s software platform to build the Modal, Intermode has been able to present a compelling offering to their customers: a blend of durable hardware and adaptable software for creating new mobile robotics solutions.
The benefit is clear: accelerated development means you can get your robots into production and to market faster. While previously, it often took several weeks for the Intermode team to create custom testing procedures, now they use Viam to get it done in days. And one of Intermode’s customers, who is building a crosswalk guard mobile robot, can instantly move their robot from anywhere using the Viam platform.
Businesses can further use Intermode and Viam together to:
Check out our tutorial for controlling a Modal rover with the CAN bus protocol and Viam. Questions? We'll be happy to help—reach out to our team below.
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“One of the largest challenges our customers face is how to test mobile robots repeatedly and build quickly as they're doing it. We looked for a partner who could make it easy for our customers to develop these specific applications.”
Mobile robots have the opportunity to change the status quo in several key industries from food delivery to factory automation, but we’ve yet to see them deployed at scale. With deep expertise in engineering electric and autonomous vehicles, Intermode saw an opportunity to build a hardware foundation for the future of mobile robotics—the Modal.
Intermode built the Modal from the ground up to be modular, durable, and most importantly reliable. Their customers can customize the Modal to suit specific business needs and Intermode covers the rest, maintenance and service included. Intermode eliminates hardware burdens for businesses, allowing them to focus on what they do best.
In working with their customers, Intermode noticed that many needed extra software support to get their robots up and running quickly. They set out to find a software platform that could:
“Instead of spending a lot of time developing something custom, our customers can use Viam to have the Modal execute simple actions or to validate something in the real world. The teleoperation feature has specifically been very helpful.”
Viam stood out as a software partner with its component-based approach to robotics hardware design. By using Viam’s exposed APIs, Intermode implemented the full Modal rover as a custom Base component. Abstracting the CAN bus protocol used by the rover in this way made it easy to securely control the Modal in any programming language of choice.
Intermode’s CEO, Arnold Kadiu, describes this seamless connection between Intermode and Viam as two sides of the same coin: Intermode makes the hardware aspects of mobile robotics easy for businesses, while Viam simplifies the software aspects to accelerate development.
“We share Viam with our customers from the start to help them accelerate their development journey and how they’re approaching the software for building mobile robots.”
By leveraging Viam’s software platform to build the Modal, Intermode has been able to present a compelling offering to their customers: a blend of durable hardware and adaptable software for creating new mobile robotics solutions.
The benefit is clear: accelerated development means you can get your robots into production and to market faster. While previously, it often took several weeks for the Intermode team to create custom testing procedures, now they use Viam to get it done in days. And one of Intermode’s customers, who is building a crosswalk guard mobile robot, can instantly move their robot from anywhere using the Viam platform.
Businesses can further use Intermode and Viam together to:
Check out our tutorial for controlling a Modal rover with the CAN bus protocol and Viam. Questions? We'll be happy to help—reach out to our team below.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
"Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system."
