Viam | About | Robotics Software Platform

Build, manage, and scale robots just like software.

The physical world is finally programmable. Viam is the software platform that enables any engineer to build, deploy, and manage robotics applications from first prototype to global fleet.

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Origin Story

Eliot Horowitz had seen this problem before: a technology too complex to build on, tooling too fragmented to move fast, brilliant ideas dying before they ship. As the co-founder of MongoDB, he spent over a decade solving this problem for databases. In 2020, he saw the same pattern, and he set out to build Viam: a clean, programmable stack engineers can actually build on. Get to a working robot in days, not months. Scale to a fleet without a rewrite.

About

Viam is the software platform for building, deploying, and managing robotics applications. Engineers, startups, and enterprises use Viam to develop for the physical world the way they develop modern software — in familiar languages, across any hardware, from first prototype to global fleet. Viam powers teams across manufacturing, marine, climate, logistics, entertainment, and more. Founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder and former CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam has its headquarters and robotics lab in New York City, and team members around the world.

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Viam has its headquarters and robotics lab in New York City, with a growing team across the US and Europe.

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“Viam’s open architecture represents a paradigm shift that will bring the promises of robotics to the devices we use every day.”
Albert Wenger, Partner, Union Square Ventures, Viam Board of Directors