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Viam Launchpad aims to accelerate robotics deployments

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Viam Launchpad aims to accelerate robotics deployments

Returning from RoboBusiness and RobOpsCon, I have never felt more optimistic about the robotics — I mean the physical AI — industry. Billion-dollar valuations and groundbreaking technology continue to outpace yesterday’s innovations at warp speed.

At the same time, too many brilliant entrepreneurs are languishing in taking their ideas from the lab to market. These startups, led by domain experts, are on a mission to automate their industries. However, they get stuck in ROS purgatory, unable to turn pilots into revenue-generating bots.

In 2020, Eliot Horowitz set out to create a better way to build and deploy smart machines. Drawing on his experience as co-founder and chief technology officer of MongoDB, Horowitz created Viam, a universal software abstraction layer for building and deploying hardware systems across enterprise fleets, or, as the company describes it, “The harness for physical AI.”

“In the past, robotics startups needed years of R&D and were faced with building a huge amount of infrastructure to make a project something more than a science experiment,” said Horowitz. “What we see with Viam is that a small team starting from zero can prototype in weeks or months, iterate, deploy, and capture real business with incredible velocity by leveraging Viam’s tools and harness for physical AI. We’re incredibly excited to be providing the ingredients needed to grow this new wave of robotics.”

From left: Florian Pestoni of InOrbit, Oliver Mitchell of Arkenstone Capital, Tiq Chapa of Google Cloud, and Betsy Mulé of F-Prime, at RobOpsCon’s VC panel.


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