What Viam does
Viam (viam.com) is a physical-AI / robotics software company that provides a unified, “software-like” development and deployment platform for smart machines. The core product is a modular platform that abstracts robotics infrastructure—hardware connectivity, data capture, and fleet-level operations—so engineers can build robot applications using consistent APIs across different hardware and then deploy, monitor, and update those robots at scale. Viam positions its architecture around a workflow that runs from local development to production deployment, including remote testing, edge inference, and over-the-air (OTA) updates for both application/configuration and deployed intelligence. Viam also emphasizes openness and extensibility via a central “Registry” of modules (drivers, services, models, and reusable configuration fragments).