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Show HN: Modular, full-stack software components for robotics and IoT (transitiverobotics.com)
3 points by chfritz on Aug 23, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I'm thrilled to announce the public beta of Transitive Robotics, a company I've founded out of the belief that the robotics industry is lacking a shared, open platform for the development of full-stack robotic software. ROS is great but is lacking a cloud and web stack. As a result, robotics companies lose time creating their own cloud middle-ware for robotics and reimplementing dozens of common full-stack components when this time could be better spent on their specific product. I've worked for six different robotics startups and have seen this time and time again.

Transitive fixes that. It provides modular, full-stack components that robotics companies can use to build their robotics web portals and dashboards faster and to a higher quality. On top of that, the platform itself is open-source, so others can develop their own capabilities. Transitive + capabilities is comparable to Android + apps.

Come and try out come of our capabilities, such as remote-teleop with live video: https://youtu.be/45geHcIGcFU, or our terminal capability that gives you a web terminal w/ support for file transfer without the need for a VPN or similar by virtue of using webrtc: https://transitiverobotics.com/caps/transitive-robotics/term.... The latter is useful for any kind of remote device, not just robots.

Please share your thoughts and feedback.



Fantastic job chfritz!

I have watched so many companies struggle with the 'middle-ware' part. Everyone is trying to hire WebRTC/video devs and just not enough to support all these companies. I can't wait to see the next generation of devices be powered by this :)


Thanks, Sean! To me WebRTC is one of these technologies which seem super hard and complicated at first, but once you get it you can't believe you were ever able to live (or in this case work) without it. My favorite example for this is the web-terminal: every robotics company I know has some sort of VPN/tailscale/wireguard or ssh-tunnel setup to reach their deployed robots, and it's a pain to maintain. But with webrtc you don't need to worry about any of that, it just works!




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