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Viam 101
Our Viam 101 course is the fastest way to learn to build a robot, with no hardware and no prior robotics experience required. You’ll build a palletizing application from scratch: a robot arm that picks boxes from a station and stacks them on a pallet.
Viam enables you to build and manage real robotics applications, but you don’t need any hardware to start learning it.
Each pathway below teaches practical Viam skills through a hands-on project. Choose whichever matches your learning goals.
| Pathway | Description | Hardware required | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viam 101 | Learn robotics fundamentals for working with physical spaces and motion planning, and build an application for a robotic arm in the Viam framework using your own control logic. | None (Viam visualization) | ~90 minutes |
| Quality Inspection | Use a vision pipeline and ML model to capture data and write inspection logic for a simulated canning line. | None (Gazebo simulation) | ~55 minutes |
| Viam Rover | Use one of Viam’s SDKs to control a rover remotely. | None (check one out in our lab) | ~10 minutes |
| Pick and Place | Use Viam’s Python SDK and vision models to program an arm to detect, pick up, and place blocks on its own. | uFactory xArm6 and gripper, Intel RealSense D435 | ~90 minutes |
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