Welcome to the fourth edition of our newsletter. On a monthly basis, we’ll share updates to the Viam platform, trends across robotics, IoT, and AI, and highlight interesting projects to inspire you and your team.
It’s nearly Spring in New York, and here at Viam HQ we’re looking forward to a season of new possibilities.
Our CEO and Founder Eliot Horowitz recently shared the news of our Series C funding round, with new investor Neurone joining Union Square Ventures and Battery Ventures to support our global expansion.
We’re inspired by how our partners are bringing AI into the real world with practical improvements: updating existing systems, building new products, even spinning up new business lines.
So what’s next for you?
We’d love to hear about any new projects you’re working on—justreply to this newsletter to let us know.
⚙️ Platform highlights
We're excited to share several important platform enhancements designed to improve your experience managing machines and data with Viam. Here's what's new this month.
Safer configuration management with fragment versions
Fragment versions allow you to track changes, maintain machine stability, and deploy updates with confidence. You can use tags (such as 'stable' or 'testing') to reference specific versions in your configurations, making it easy to implement controlled rollouts and quick rollbacks if needed. Learn more.
Enhanced data management: Hot data store We've introduced a new data management option to enable faster queries for recently captured data. Enable the Hot Data Store in your component's data capture method configuration in the fleet management interface to dual-write a window of the latest captured data from that component to a document database, in addition to the standard blob storage. Learn more.
New enhancements for building and integrating with microcontrollers
The Micro-RDK is the Rust library that powers the lightweight version of Viam that can run on microcontrollers, like an ESP32.
Micro-RDK offline support Micro-RDK supports connections over WiFi, but before, the WiFi network had to be accessible via the internet. Micro-RDK now supports connections over a local WiFi network that is not connected to the internet. Learn more.
Micro-RDK cloud builds When using the Micro-RDK, you'll often want to build your own firmware containing a custom combination of modules and any custom logic. It's now easier than ever to build and host your firmware, with the Micro-RDK GitHub template including a GitHub Action that builds a new artifact from a release version. Learn more.
Micro-RDK multiple WiFi network support You can now configure multiple WiFi networks for Micro-RDK to try to connect to using the Viam agent, the same way you do for viam-server.
Join us at the Viam office for March's tech talk and social, featuring Sudheer Gaddipati on how Machine Learning and LLMs complement each other, and Xavier Huang on how to effectively increase the accuracy of Gen AI's response. No technical background required—just curiosity. Free drinks, food, and great conversations!
JavaScript developers are invited to join Viam in Paris to learn how to overcome the challenges of working with code in the physical world, featuring a talk by Viam’s Head of Developer Relations, Joyce Lin.
Join us at the Viam office for the next NY Hardware Meetup. Viam Product Manager, Esha Maharishi, will be doing a live demo, and there will be plenty of time to connect with fellow hardware enthusiasts. Whether you're deep in the industry or just curious, come by for great conversations, hands-on tech, and free food and drinks!
