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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

Excited to share: After strong feedback from @viamrobotics , I just published two native Viam modules! ezrobotix:abb — ABB IRC5/OmniCore via RWS REST ezrobotix:fanuc — FANUC R-30iA/B via FTP Plug-and-play backups, file browsing, logs & more. Free in Viam registry. Feedback welcome! 🔗 Fleet Management: github.com/mpatel1962/fle… 🔗 ABB: app.viam.com/module/ezrobot… 🔗 FANUC: app.viam.com/module/ezrobot… #Robotics #IndustrialAutomation #Viam #OpenSource

TL;DR: 10 minutes of configuration >>> 10 months of infrastructural set-up. See the full walkthrough here: youtu.be/Ui1acBFoEnU

@DominiqueCAPaul Real-world robotics is too messy for closed systems.

There are so many companies that want to build the OS layer for robotics companies, where they manage their data and can launch model trainings. Yes, this is indeed a big problem, but then these companies are closed-source and don't realise that using such a central tool and not being able to modify it when you have an idea creates more problems than it could ever solve. Iterating on this internal platform *is* your product when you're doing research and deploying robots. The best setup to build a tooling company for robotics is to try and deploy robots yourself, experience first-hand why it's so hard, and then pivot into solving one of the many problems you encountered for others.

🎯 We can’t accept machines sitting idle because deployment is too hard or drivers are proprietary nightmares. We built the @viamrobotics software layer that works with any hardware to make the physical world programmable. That way, founders stop fighting APIs and start solving real-world problems 🛠️ docs.viam.com/what-is-viam/

robotics is inherently about hardware, however I'm meeting more and more founders who want to find a software (or just non-hardware) business to build for robotics. thoughts: > software is behind hardware (so this realization is correct, but not unique), and "robot brain" is indeed a hard problem to solve (further out than most think). that being said, I don't think solving robot intelligence as a company that is neither 1) collecting data (either by robot deployment, or other means) nor 2) a true research company like PI makes a lot of sense > Selling dev tools to robotics companies is a horrible business idea right now (sounds smart, but not enough robot deployments + nowhere near the #1 pain point) > the most obvious non-hardware opportunity is in the deployment gap. specifically, imo the demand for businesses in manual labor that want to try robotic solutions *today* I believe is much greater than most people realize, however no robot (humanoid to service bot) is ready to work out of the box (i.e. someone needs to come set them up, teleop, maintain etc). if I were thinking about a business, I would think about doing something that helps old-school, regular-ass businesses put robots into their space tl;dr build stuff that actively puts more robots into the world

Pretty cool to see that the logic used for a $250 setup could be used for a $250K setup

We built it with some off-the-shelf parts like a @beagleboardorg AI-64, a servo mount, and a few others for ~$250. And if you want to go full production-level...the parts change, but the logic stays the same. Watch full walkthrough to see how this works: youtu.be/H-65-zYwboA

Prototype an automated solar panel in just one day? ☀️⚙️ With Viam, you write the control logic and watch it work. Our visual intelligence tracks light intensity to keep your panels perfectly positioned. #Robotics #CleanTech #Viam #Automation #IoT

If you’re tired of cumbersome setups and jittery motion planners, it’s time to switch. Start building for free at app.viam.com.

The secret sauce? The Viam Pose Saver. Instead of manual pathing, we just "save and play." Once the poses are set, we containerize the logic into a reusable module. Build once, deploy to any machine on the floor. 📦🤖 #Robotics #BuildInPublic #Automation

We built this pick-and-place demo using a #UFactory xArm 6 and an @elgato Stream Deck in < 24hrs to prove a point: You don't need complex coordinate code for millimeter-perfect repeatability. You just need a better platform. No-drift motion planning, powered by @ViamRobotics. 🧵👇

@iamPatel7 Great! Sending DM.

@viamrobotics Would love to! Lets build🤙🏼

Excited to finally open-source my Fleet Management project! 🚀 A lightweight, self-hosted web app for mixed industrial robot fleets (ABB IRC5/OmniCore + FANUC R-30iB). ✅ Automated & manual backups ✅ Browse controller files ✅ Event logs & trends ✅ Golden-template deployments ✅ Full Git version history 100% local — no cloud. Python/FastAPI backend + React/TypeScript frontend. Works as Windows service or on Linux. Repo is cleaned up and live: github.com/mpatel1962/fle… Would love your feedback, ideas, and contributions! 🤖 #OpenSource #IndustrialAutomation #Robotics #ABB #FANUC #Python #React

1000%. No more driver headaches. More building.

Stop writing “Hello World” for your hardware. 🛑 Most #robotics teams spend months on infrastructure (drivers, networking, and scaffolding) before they even move an arm. Our Technical CoS Avery shows how to skip the “tax” and get straight to the #automation.

@econ_tech_vance @altantutar 1000% @econ_tech_vance Fleet orchestration is the bridge btwn a cool demo and a real business. We're building Viam to be that bridge: standardized remote management so you can scale w/o requiring an army of on-site engineers. Video w/more: youtu.be/4NI13dS_jFw?si…

@altantutar I'd add maintenance + fleet orchestration. Building one robot is cool. Keeping 500 online in the real world feels like the actual business.

If I were starting a robotics company in 2026, I wouldn't build another humanoid. Here are the 7 wedges I'd explore instead: 1/ Actuators: China runs ~90% of magnet manufacturing and has a monopoly. Every humanoid needs ~40 motors. This will be the hardest robotics bottleneck of the decade. 2/ Ocean robotics: Saronic just raised $1.75B at a $9.25B valuation. Defense is the main buyer, but there are a lot of commercial buyers that people ignore. 3/ Space robotics: Launch costs are going to fall exponentially in the next decade. Orbit is going to become a labor market, and robots will do the work, not humans. 4/ System integrators: There's a lot of robots being built, but there is no one to go deploy them. 5/ Specialized VLAs: Actor Labs fine-tuned π0.5 on a real excavator. You could see that apply to different domains. 6/ Industrial inspection: Boring at first site, but probably one of the most overlook category. Buyers are big spenders, like oil and gas companies. 7/ Sim-to-real for unmanned missions: Almost all sim environments are created for ground & air physics. What if you build an ocean simulator? What would you add?

Dig deeper on fragments 👉 docs.viam.com/hardware/fragm…

Building robots usually takes months of coding. We did it in 3 days. ☕️🤖 Then we replicated the entire logic for 3 more machines instantly. No rewrites. No rebuilds. Just Viam Fragments.

@ludwim_i If you're looking to try out our Registry with a build, let us know. We have a tutorial on our Docs or you can jump into your own docs.viam.com/try/overview/

@viamrobotics same pain

Most robot arm projects start with weeks of kinematics. Ours skipped straight to building. #Robotics #MotionPlanning #BuildOnViam #RobotArm #SoftwareEngineering #PhysicalAI #TechHackathon #EngineeringLife

@ludwim_i Agreed — every builder shouldn’t have to figure this out from scratch. Our Registry houses what we call “modules”, which are code packages that models, integrations, or control logic app.viam.com/registry

@viamrobotics skipping the kinematics swamp is the dream. I’m building a robot skill database and motion-planning shortcuts like this are exactly the kind of thing I want easier to find.