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by chfritz 7mo ago
Agreed. Feels icky. Made me want to leave the page as quickly as possible again.
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by chfritz 7mo ago
"the funding all these startups are getting should allow them to scale their methods 10x-100x.." .. "Therefore, we might soon see a ChatGPT moment in robotics" -- I don't think so and no, the second statement is NOT
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by chfritz 8mo ago
> 10 patents in 4 days How can you seriously state that as a positive? Are you trying to exemplify the new AI-patent-generation-mill? No one in their right mind can expect a person to make 10 meaningful inventions in 4 days.
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by chfritz 8mo ago
How many more times do you want to post this?
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by chfritz 8mo ago
Working with nine different robotics companies over the course of 10 years has taught us a thing or two about designing robotic full-stack architectures. All this experience went into the design of Transitive, the open-source framework for
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Transitive Core Concepts: Full-Stack Robotic Packages(transitiverobotics.com)
1 points by chfritz 8mo ago|1 comments
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by chfritz 8mo ago
Sure, let's instead encourage them to reinvent the wheel (TF, simulation, architecture, navigation, localization, SLAM, 2D map representation, etc.) that seems much smarter. ROS might be like democracy ("the worst form of governme
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by chfritz 8mo ago
Go through the ROS tutorials, using a simulated robot at first, then buy a tiny AMR kit and do the same thing IRL. Once you have those basics, you can ask yourself into which direction to go next, the obvious choices being 1) deeper into th
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by chfritz 8mo ago
Reverse engineering is illegal in many cases. Aren't you afraid you might be automating the process for your users to get into (legal) trouble? Will your tool warn the user if they are about to violate laws?
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by chfritz 8mo ago
Doesn't that depend on what a failure looks like? Failure to achieve the task (with no other side effects) is very different from accidentally killing the patient. Maybe also send a link to that study/article you are referring to?
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by chfritz 8mo ago
cool. submitted something!
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by chfritz 8mo ago
Awesome, congrats on the launch! Can you say more about the software stack? Is it open-source? I see you are using ROS on the robot, but what about the full-stack (robot + cloud + web)? Did you build all that yourself? At Transitive Robotic
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by chfritz 8mo ago
AI is poisoning the well from which it drinks. If OSS withers or dies, what will AI train on to get better? Same with StackOverflow.
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by chfritz 9mo ago
Interesting, I didn't know that! We've built this map display module but always thought of it as something only relevant for indoor robots. Do you think this might be relevant for outdoor as well then? https://transitiv
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Life Is Not a Simulation but a Consistent Logical Theory(chfritz.github.io)
2 points by chfritz 9mo ago|0 comments
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by chfritz 9mo ago
For what kind of robots did you design this? "several kilometers" implies that its not in-doors, but if it's outdoors, then why not just use a regular street-/satellite-map, such as leaflet, where setting points and line
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ROS2 Robotics 2026: Jetson Nano or Raspberry Pi 5 Kit?(hackster.io)
1 points by chfritz 9mo ago|0 comments
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by chfritz 9mo ago
ClickHouse is awesome. We use it to ingest robotics data at scale.
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Life is not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment(chfritz.github.io)
4 points by chfritz 9mo ago|1 comments
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by chfritz 9mo ago
tl;dr: No need to simulate life for it to exist -- "it's the thought that counts". I have been entertaining this thought for a while and finally wrote it down. Would love to hear what people think, in particular in terms of h
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by chfritz 9mo ago
> the most critical sensor logs often get lost when a robot loses power That seems like a bizarrely niche problem. I've been working in robotics for many years and I don't think this has ever been a problem for us. Why would a
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Ask HN: Etiquette giving feedback on mostly AI-generated PRs from co-workers
5 points by chfritz 10mo ago|6 comments
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How to stream video from robots for monitoring and teleoperation(transitiverobotics.com)
1 points by chfritz 10mo ago|0 comments
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by chfritz 10mo ago
If that person had been a roboticist, they would have known what to do: stand in front of the car. It would have saved the cat's life. And most non-roboticists will immediately recognize this as a solution, too: these cars obviously
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Remote teleoperation of robots with live video(transitiverobotics.com)
2 points by chfritz 10mo ago|0 comments
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Russia's War Drones Still Using Starlink Despite Pentagon Crackdown(united24media.com)
11 points by chfritz 10mo ago|0 comments
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by chfritz 10mo ago
Let's divide-and-conquer! -- like all good CS algorithms do. /newest is very noisy but if you subscribe to just a "sliver" that you are interested in and review those submissions, then we can improve voting together very
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by chfritz 11mo ago
Is it fate? Spotify was just playing "Sunday (The Day Before my Birthday)" by Moby as I was reading this. Should I reach out?
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by chfritz 11mo ago
Cool, but what's the news here?
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by chfritz 11mo ago
Great article! Read the whole thing. No idea why this hasn't been up-voted more. I found it by filtering for robots/robotics.

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