Accelerate ROS with Viam

Viam software gives you the power to easily manage robot fleets and data, so you can maximize your focus on building.
Viam integrates with ROS to help enterprises and startups monetize their fleets and transform robots into profitable businesses. 
While you are helping customers see the value of your robots in the field, Viam seamlessly handles the cloud back-end to keep costs low and provide valuable robot data and functionality at your fingertips, including:

Robot interoperability

Secure interoperability between any kind of robot - whether built on ROS or otherwise

Data management

Robot data capture, storage, analytics, and machine learning

Code deployment

Iterate on, update and enhance robots on the fly

Mobile application

Manage and operate any robot from anywhere on any device, including your mobile phone.
Viam wants to help your robotics business get off the ground and is priced accordingly - no upfront subscription or per-robot costs - just pay for the cloud storage and compute needed to take care of your fleet. 
Learn more about how the Viam platform’s fleet and data management capabilities can help streamline your robotics operations and drive revenue.

How Viam and ROS work together

Deploy code to ROS Robots

See which code is on which robot and easily add new features and services to robots as needed.
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Selective data capture, model training, and ML deployment

Build and train machine learning models based on the data that matters, without wasting resources on the data you don’t need.
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Remote robot control through the Viam mobile app

You already use your mobile phone for everything. Now you can use it to manage and teleoperate your robots from anywhere.
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Offload robot ML processes

Lighten the load for your robot by sending data-intensive machine learning workloads for processing in the cloud.
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Introducing Viam’s Modular Registry: How Viam expands the possibilities of ROS

Announcing the Viam Modular Registry

Viam's modular registry is designed as an extensible platform for a robust open source community. Developers can build, publish and share modules for any kind of functionality they need for their robot.
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Why modularity matters for robots

Viam’s modular architecture reduces the time and resources needed to integrate customized resources into any robot running on Viam.
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Seamless CI/CD with Viam’s Modular Registry

Explore how Viam's Modular Registry enhances continuous integration and deployment, streamlining the process via seamless integration with GitHub Actions.
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See the Modular Registry for Yourself  

Viam’s cloud module registry allows developers to write a plugin for any component, publish it in Viam’s cloud, and deploy it to support any hardware or custom services.
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Deep dives on Viam use cases with ROS

If you would like to take a deeper dive into how Viam integrates with ROS to help organizations access and work with their robots’ data in the cloud, check out the following blog posts from our engineering team:
ROS & Viam
10.16.23

Seamless CI/CD with Viam's Registry

Explore how Viam's Modular Registry revolutionizes continuous integration and deployment, streamlining the process via seamless integration with GitHub Actions.
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ROS & Viam
10.12.23

Creating a ROS2 integration module and deploying it to a robot

The modular registry is powerful for both general code deployment and for leveraging code written by another community or business. See it in action with our ROS2 integration.
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ROS & Viam
9.18.23

Consolidate ROS logging with Viam

Have a spread out robot fleet? With the Viam platform's ROS 2 integration, you can monitor and debug ROS 2 logging through Viam's web UI.
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ROS & Viam
9.1.23

Integrate your ROS2 robot with Viam

The Viam platform can be integrated with ROS2. In this post we'll show how we leveraged the integration to remotely control a robot through a mobile application.
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ROS & Viam
8.18.23

Build a robotics web app with TypeScript & Viam on ROS

Viam leverages software engineering principles to simplify the creation and maintenance of robots. In this post, we show how to easily visualize robot data in a dashboard.
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ROS & Viam
8.14.23

How Viam provides a mobile pathway for ROS robots

With the Viam Flutter SDK, you can easily build mobile or cross-platform apps for your customers to interface with your robots—whether your robots are ROS-based, non-ROS-based, or some combination.
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ROS & Viam
7.31.23

Extend ROS with Viam

At Viam, we're excited about helping companies build better and brighter robots. In this blog post, we'll share how Viam and ROS can play together in various ways to help you do just that.
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Further resources

The Viam GitHub repository

See and leverage Viam’s code.
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The Viam Modular Registry

Create and share the resources your robots need.
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Viam Discord community

Come hang out with our vibrant developer community.
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Viam documentation

Learn more about the Viam Platform and get acquainted with our thinking about smart machine ecosystems.
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Get a customized demo

Want to receive a customized demo of how Viam can elevate your robotics business? Fill out the form and one of our experts will reach out to organize a session tailored to your needs and goals.