Robot Development Kit
Tip
For an overview of the Viam platform, see Viam in 3 minutes.
Viam’s Robot Development Kit (RDK) is the open-source, on-robot portion of the Viam platform, that provides viam-server
and the Go SDK.
viam-server
viam-server is responsible for:
- All gRPC and WebRTC communication
- Connecting robots to the cloud
- Loading and managing connections to hardware components
- Running built-in services
- Managing configured processes
- Connecting to other parts of your robot
Next Steps
Have questions, or want to meet other people working on robots? Join our Community Discord.
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