Quickstart tutorials

Start with Move your first arm to see the motion service drive an arm end-to-end. Then do Configure a frame system to see how Viam ties arms, grippers, and cameras into one coordinate tree: the foundation everything else in this section builds on.

Both quickstarts run on fake components, so you can do them on any laptop without hardware. When you swap in a real arm or camera later, the machine configuration changes; your code does not.

Move your first arm

From zero to an arm moving under motion service control, using a fake arm that runs on any machine.

Configure a frame system

Set up a table-mounted arm with a gripper and a wrist camera, and verify the frame configuration with TransformPose.

Related

Base-motion and GPS-waypoint quickstarts live in Navigation, because a first-time walkthrough of localization or GPS navigation needs real hardware.

Drive a base

Move a wheeled base with direct component commands for distance, angle, power, or velocity.

Navigate to waypoint

Configure the navigation service and autonomously navigate to GPS waypoints.

Drive a base

Move a wheeled base with direct component commands for distance, angle, power, or velocity.

Navigate to waypoint

Configure the navigation service and autonomously navigate to GPS waypoints.