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Viam Expands Beyond Robotics: Introducing Their Revolutionary No-Code Automation Platform

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The no-code development platform previously focused its outreach on robotics firms. They were like, ‘we’re not a robotics company — we do food processing, we do PLC automation, we do boats, we’re not robots.’”Further complicating messaging was the fact that — while the company is simply named “Viam” — its various social media platforms are “Viam Robotics,” owing to the fact that it was unable to secure the four-letter word. Viam’s large office overlooking New York City’s Lincoln Center has a lab space, where members of the local robotics community are invited in to use its platform to develop automation applications. “When people ask me what I do and what [Viam’s software] does, I usually use an example from their life. We are a platform that lives at the intersection of real-world hardware and real-world software and the cloud and machine learning.

“A16Z Offers Financial Aid to Politicians in Exchange for Tech Deregulation”

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The fact is that they are rich ideologues announcing their intent to pay any politician who will advance their agenda, whatever that politician’s other views. That tech is more important than people is fundamental to their approach. For instance, supporting politicians who oppose basic civil rights just because they have a more hands-off tech regulation proposal. In the first place, the idea that this one issue is non-partisan is risible. They can’t expect us to believe that their understanding of lobbying and politics is this naive.