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Viam: Modern robotics platform

by zmk5 on 10/12/22, 12:22 AM with 13 comments

• by jerojero on 10/12/22, 1:07 AM

  This is a little unrelated but I much prefer the style of illustrations and decorations in this website (and others that are similar) than the deformed and purple coloured people from Alegria or whatever it was called.

• by ducktective on 10/12/22, 6:34 AM

  I skimmed a bit, are my evaluations correct?

  - The robot/hardware should provide a TCP stack

  - The firmware running on robot should be written in a way to work against viam sdk (which necessitates having a high-level OS like Linux running on it)

  - Viam is like LabView/Simulink or ROS as-a-web-service

  Congrats on launching, btw

• by throwaway2016a on 10/12/22, 1:34 PM

  I see there is a lot on Github but I'm a bit unsure how much is actually Open Source. I like the idea of a managed cloud but I'd be concerned to use one in production. Not saying this would happen here but too many companies have gone out of business and bricked IoT devices in the process. A cloud provider has the unique ability to brick many devices from different vendors.

  Can I run the server on my own cloud?

• by amelius on 10/12/22, 9:24 AM

  How is state managed? Or is this a low level library where you control everything directly?

• by dang on 10/12/22, 5:24 AM

  We changed the URL from https://www.viam.com/ to the page that seems to give more of an intro to what this is.