Robot Development Kit

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

APIs

Access and control your robot or fleet with the SDKs' client libraries for the resource and robot APIs.

Extend Viam

Extend Viam with modular resources from the Viam registry.

micro-RDK

The micro-RDK is a lightweight version of the Robot Development Kit which can run on resource-limited embedded systems.