# Try Viam

Pick a hands-on way to try Viam. Most pathways need no hardware to get started.
> Source: https://docs.viam.com/try/overview/


> **Viam 101:**
> 
> Our [**Viam 101 course**](https://www.viam.com/viam-101) 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](https://www.viam.com/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](/try/quality-inspection/overview/) | 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](/try/viam-rover/overview/)                 | Use one of Viam's SDKs to control a rover remotely.                                                                                                                              | None (check one out in our lab)                  | ~10 minutes |
| [Pick and Place](/tutorials/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 |