Tech Mahindra and Viam announced a partnership to scale advanced robotics and automation solutions for enterprise customers. The collaboration is aimed at helping manufacturers and other industrial users deploy and manage robotic fleets with more software visibility, faster integration and broader operational control.
The deal gives Tech Mahindra’s global enterprise clients direct access to Viam’s robotics and automation platform. The platform is described as a unified software layer for building, deploying and managing robotics applications at scale, with support for fleet management, predictive and preventive maintenance, and over-the-air software updates.
Manikantan N S, Global Delivery Head, Manufacturing Service Line, Tech Mahindra, said, “Across industries, enterprises are increasingly looking at robotics and automation as strategic enablers of resilience, productivity, and intelligent decision-making. However, scaling robotics across complex industrial environments continues to remain a challenge due to fragmented software ecosystems, integration complexities, and the need for real-time fleet visibility and management. Our partnership with Viam will help address these challenges by combining Tech Mahindra’s deep engineering and industry expertise with Viam’s advanced hardware-agnostic robotics platform. Together, we aim to enable enterprises to accelerate the adoption of scalable, secure, and intelligent automation solutions while improving operational efficiency and business agility.”
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The companies said the platform is hardware agnostic and cloud agnostic. Tech Mahindra said it plans to expand its dedicated robotics and automation practice using the Viam platform and train large cohorts of engineers on it.
About Viam
Viam is a software platform for building, deploying and managing robotics applications. On its site, the company says it is designed to abstract away hardware, networking and data-management complexity so engineers can build and manage robots using familiar software workflows. Viam was founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder and former CTO Eliot Horowitz.
Industrial robotics still depends on integration, uptime and fleet management, not just on the robot itself. Tech Mahindra said enterprises are struggling with fragmented software ecosystems, integration complexity and the need for real-time fleet visibility. That is the problem the partnership is trying to address.
The two companies are trying to package robotics as an operational system that can be managed more like enterprise IT. That includes remote fleet management, maintenance, and software updates across a robotic estate. That framing is taken directly from the announcement and Viam’s platform description.
“Partnering with Tech Mahindra provides a massive opportunity for global enterprises to leverage Viam’s platform on a global scale,” says Eliot Horowitz, CEO and Founder of Viam. “The importance of the software layer in scaling automation solutions has become increasingly clear.”
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The deal also reflects a broader change in automation buying behavior. Instead of treating robotics as isolated factory hardware, companies are increasingly looking for a software layer that can connect machines, standardize control and reduce deployment friction. Viam’s own platform materials make that point by emphasizing standardized building blocks and a software-first approach to robotics development.
