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



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