Viam is the software platform for building, deploying, and managing robotics applications.
Joined January 2021
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Mar 11
Salad-making. Wine-pouring. Coffee-brewing. Robotic dogs. Autonomous air hockey.
Our team spent 3 days building robots of all kinds just as easily as they build software, all on Viam. Check out the highlight reel to see what they built.
#robotics #buildonviam #physicalAI
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We prototyped this palletizing robot entirely in simulation. Half a day later, it was running on real hardware, with motion planning hardware integration handled by Viam.
Full video on YouTube 👉 youtu.be/tHEZBhgmCAY
#Robotics #palletizing #industrialautomation #simtoreal
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Jun 12
What if motion planning, #simulation, and fleet management were already built in?
In this video on YouTube, Brandon walks through building a palletizer with Viam and getting boxes moving in about 30 minutes: youtu.be/hg4s2FmWRZc
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Jun 12
“We were able to move the boxes around in the world in around 30 minutes.”
How? Brandon used Viam’s Frame System to define where the arm, pallet, and pickup station lived in the cell, then used the built-in #motionplanning to generate trajectories and check for collisions automatically.
docs.viam.com/motion-plannin…
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Jun 12
The reason demo =/= production robot is because production-ready #industrialautomation isn’t just “the robot moved.”
It means simulation and real hardware use the same workflow, operators and developers can use the same tools, and teams can pin versions per machine across demo, dev, and deployed environments.
That’s the bigger story here. View on YouTube as well: youtu.be/hg4s2FmWRZc
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Jun 11
We took the power of @Meta’s SAM2 segmentation model and brought it into Viam to make robotics pick-and-place more precise 🦾
When your #robots knows exactly where your item is in space (no background noise), accuracy goes up 📈
#robotics #pickandplace #Meta #sam2
Jun 10
Full code from the @viamrobotics team on GitHub → github.com/viam-modules/sam2…
What does precise segmentation open up for your robot? 👇👇
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Viam retweeted
Jun 10
With SAM2, you get a pixel-perfect mask of just the object...even if it’s partially covered!
That precision is the difference between a successful vs. failed grab.
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Jun 10
Your robot's gripper misses because your basic vision detector is lying to it.
Bounding boxes include the floor, the table, & everything behind the object. @Meta's SAM2 fixes that.
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The result: precise picking, every time.
Camera → mask → 3D point cloud → grab.
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Full code from the @viamrobotics team on GitHub → github.com/viam-modules/sam2…
What does precise segmentation open up for your robot? 👇👇
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Jun 9
No kernel patches. No SDKs. No initialization ritual.
Arm wrist-mounted cam. Set up in minutes. Here's what that actually looks like:
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Jun 9
And when you need different hardware? Swap it. Keep the code.
One config change. Same application logic. Viam handles the translation. #BuildonViam #robotics #softwareengineering
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Jun 6
The complexity of the underlying infrastructure & tightly coupled nature of drivers and networking can swallow eng capacity fast.
Decoupling hardware abstraction layer from the main application logic w/ @viamrobotics allows you to isolate these variables & focus entirely on building unique behaviors, while the platform handles the baseline primitives.
Jun 6
People underestimate the difficulty of robotics businesses because they’re systems problems.
You can’t have a single weak spot. Controls, perception, actuation, power electronics, structure, sales, pre-sales, support, supply chain, etc - all tightly coupled, all requiring specialist skills, all capable of killing the company.
You need to be world class in at least one area.
Zero weak links anywhere else.
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Jun 6
Here is a look at how we approach structuring that unified stack: docs.viam.com/what-is-viam/
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Jun 5
We started #NYTechWeek with a splash! Brandon, our Staff Technical Content Engineer, spoke with builders at "Software for Hardware: The Tools Powering Robotics & Embodied AI" and showed how Viam helps teams get hardware systems working in the real world.
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Jun 5
Great piece from @ngpadgett. The engineering debt of moving from prototype electronics to production is a massive timeline killer, and the pain is the same across every stage of robotics development.
So many teams hit a wall because a late-stage swap bricks their custom stack. It's exactly why we built Viam.
informal.cc/blog/prototype-t…
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Jun 5
Viam treats hardware components as *modular*, configuration-defined assets. Decoupling the physical electronics from the main application layer means you can optimize the board without forcing the software team to start from scratch. docs.viam.com/concepts/how-v…
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TLDR of what we heard on Day 1 of #NYTechWeek — did we miss anything?
Jun 5
A lot of strong conversations on where robotics is heading, and lots of conversation about agent-driven hardware development, data pipelines, and real-world deployment.
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