Viam: Modern robotics platform

This is a little unrelated but I much prefer the style of illustrations and decorations in this website (and others that are similar) than the deformed and purple coloured people from Alegria or whatever it was called.

I skimmed a bit, are my evaluations correct?<p>- The robot&#x2F;hardware should provide a TCP stack<p>- The firmware running on robot should be written in a way to work against viam sdk (which necessitates having a high-level OS like Linux running on it)<p>- Viam is like LabView&#x2F;Simulink or ROS as-a-web-service<p>Congrats on launching, btw

I see there is a lot on Github but I&#x27;m a bit unsure how much is actually Open Source. I like the idea of a managed cloud but I&#x27;d be concerned to use one in production. Not saying this would happen here but too many companies have gone out of business and bricked IoT devices in the process. A cloud provider has the unique ability to brick many devices from different vendors.<p>Can I run the server on my own cloud?

How is state managed? Or is this a low level library where you control everything directly?

We changed the URL from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.viam.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.viam.com&#x2F;</a> to the page that seems to give more of an intro to what this is.