Building intelligent machines used to take years. Now it can take months, or even days. With the right platform, ambitious teams can bring innovative ideas from concept to market faster than ever before.

That’s just what the team at Gambit Robotics did—developing a voice-guided cooking assistant in just a few months on Viam.

Or consider Pull To Refresh, an AI-powered waste management startup using Viam to move quickly from early days into scalable production.

Whether you're bringing a new product to market, or improving processes and performance across a large fleet, building intelligent systems is faster on Viam.

⚙️ Platform highlights

Here's what's new this month.

Fragment variables
Fragment variables let you create reusable configurations with placeholder values. Define a fragment once, then reuse it with different values for IP addresses, names, or other parameters—eliminating duplicate configurations. Build complex configurations by combining fragments that use their own variables.

Merge datasets in the UI
Combine multiple datasets directly in the Viam app, and run an iterative model training workflow: train on your base dataset, collect edge cases from the field, merge them together, and retrain for better accuracy. It's especially powerful when paired with the auto-labeling feature to continuously improve your models over time.

TFLite model support for auto-labeling

We now support TFLite models, in addition to TensorFlow, for cloud inference and auto-labeling. Choose a model, set your confidence threshold, then review and accept or reject the generated annotations—skipping hours of manual labeling work.

Read more about all platform updates in the September platform roundup.

📣 Industry news

• Reinforcement learning (RL) could help orchestrate complex and precise movements across multiple robots in obstacle-rich environments: Planning for multirobot reaching with graph neural networks and reinforcement learning.
  
• The evolution and deployment of AI-powered robotics beyond traditional factory settings: AI-powered robotics and the long tail of commercial innovation.
• Robotics and automation could answer hard questions about scarcity, productivity, and how businesses might evolve. The robotics revolution: Scaling beyond the pilot phase.

📚 Top of the stack

💡 Partner highlights 

• Learn more about Gambit Robotics’ journey to launch.  
• Learn about Pull To Refresh’s journey from prototype to pivot.
  

🗓️ Events

AI and Robotics for Good—Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Impact

September 25

8:30-11 am 

New York

Viam will host PollyLabs and MIT’s Martin Trust Center to discuss robotics, conservation, labor and safety, and energy infrastructure—and identify what's blocking scalable climate innovation in these critical areas.

Register

IBEX: International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition & Conference 2025

October 7-9  

Tampa 

Visit booth 1-1010 at IBEX to check out our robotic long boarding and block sanding system, and see how our technology enables robots to navigate the complex challenges of fiberglass manufacturing. 

Meet with us

All Things Open

October 13-14  

Raleigh

Viam is excited to sponsor All Things Open. Be sure to catch the Viam session where you'll learn how to build a real-time macaron (or macaroon) detection robot.

Register

✨ Resources

• Platform roundup: September 2025.
• Build a custom dashboard, minus the complex infrastructure.
• You see the world differently when you start building on Viam.
• Viam's Natalia Jacobowitz with RealSense’s Chris Matthieu.
• Finally, robotic sanding that works with your existing process.

✉️ Get in touch

Interested in Viam for your next project? Request a demo. Connect with us on Discord, LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and GitHub. Or attend an event. Also, we're hiring!

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