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New comment by chfritz in "Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots"

chfritz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:37:11 +0000

Congrats on the launch! At Transitive Robotics we make full-stack modules so robotics companies like you can build their operational systems faster and with greater quality. We have a number of modules you might be interested in, e.g., for remote video-streaming and tele-op/-assist: https://transitiverobotics.com/caps/. Let me know if you want to chat.

New comment by chfritz in "Robotics needs a Model T moment"

chfritz — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:47:10 +0000

Very much besides the point. The point being that automation often enables other things, not just making the thing they automate directly more efficient.

New comment by chfritz in "What if more data alone won't solve robotics?"

chfritz — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:28:17 +0000

"So if you can't collect enough data before building, and simulation won't give it to you, where does the data come from? Goldberg's answer is what he calls the data avalanche: build a working system using engineering plus some learning, ship it, then let production generate the training data." -- agreed! This is also the approach taken by Field AI if I'm not mistaken. Rather than calling it the data avalanche, you could also just describe it as "learning by doing".

New comment by chfritz in "Interact With Real Robots"

chfritz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:09:13 +0000

nice idea and setup, but it doesn't work. I can request control, it will say "you are next" or similar, and then right away "time's up, return to games". I never get control.

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: MechArchive – an open, sourced catalog of the robots"

chfritz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:05:10 +0000

Another one? What's wrong with the one by IEEE? https://robotsguide.com/robots

New comment by chfritz in "Armcade, remote control robot arms to play chess"

chfritz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:08:11 +0000

love the synthwave soundtrack! So full of action and out of style for chess, it's hilarious.

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

chfritz — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:46:46 +0000

great idea! Now, you are running into the same issue Google Trends had to solve: term disambiguation. For instance, "atom" is ambiguous in a comparison of editors like this: https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=sublime&q=atom&q=vscode. Given LLMs it might be possible to use an embedding vector (with context) instead of a text string for indexing, and if you do, this problem might go away.

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

chfritz — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:26:19 +0000

how is this different from using puppeteer to load the page and save the DOM as HTML?

New comment by chfritz in "Built a robot that scans Cracow's streets for graffiti"

chfritz — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:54:26 +0000

A script or program is not a robot.

Life is not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment

chfritz — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:16:24 +0000

Article URL: https://chfritz.github.io/writing/life-is-a-thought-experiment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269917

Points: 4

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WebRTC Latency: side-by-side comparison [video]

chfritz — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:16:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLS9rE6dTU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225205

Points: 3

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New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: We sent a humanoid robot to clean a stranger's apartment in SF"

chfritz — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:17:19 +0000

Almost definitely 100% teleoperated -- the robot might move between places autonomously, but all the manipulation tasks, i.e., the actual cleaning, is not something anyone yet knows how to do autonomously reliably. And that's OK. However I'd like to know whether the data you gather from these cleanings is shared with other companies (who would be willing to pay a lot of money for it in order to train their own physical AI models).

Docker demystified: create your own containers in five minutes

chfritz — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:32:59 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/what-are-you-using-for-containerization-in-ros-deployments/54303

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139307

Points: 1

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Robot Teleoperation via WebRTC: Analyzing Latency

chfritz — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://transitiverobotics.com/blog/webrtc-latency-breakdown/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039254

Points: 3

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New comment by chfritz in "Ask HN: Hypothetical to robotics/autonomy engineers working on FSD"

chfritz — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:27:23 +0000

What a silly idea. Technology moves 20x faster than the legislature. There is no point in even trying this. By the time any suggestions would get implemented and (all?) signs replaced, they would already no longer be necessary -- like, 15 years past being necessary.

New comment by chfritz in "Robotics startups are losing to slow feedback loops"

chfritz — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:23:40 +0000

Makes a lot of sense, and seems better executed than AWS's pathetic RoboMaker attempt 8 years ago or whenever that was. Was looking for the team but there is no linkedin link on your page.

New comment by chfritz in "I am trying to collect a robotics community to learn robotics from scratch"

chfritz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:42:38 +0000

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by chfritz in "Show HN: RoboAPI – A unified REST API for robots, like Stripe but for hardware"

chfritz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:09:29 +0000

The problem is not that there is no standard -- there is, it's called ROS. The problem is that manufacturers are not interested in opening their robots up to that degree.

Also, REST is a terrible idea for interacting with robots. REST is call-response based. But with Robots a pub/sub (like ROS or MQTT) or a blackboard data architecture (like what we used in Transitive Robotics) is much more efficient and natural.

New comment by chfritz in "Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture"

chfritz — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:56:14 +0000

Foxglove is not the only name in town. There are many, Transitive Robotics, the company I'm building is one of them. Different from Foxglove we are much more focused on live-remote monitoring and control, e.g., we have a pretty popular remote teleoperation module: https://transitiverobotics.com/caps/transitive-robotics/remo... You can find all the other modules we're currently offering here: https://transitiverobotics.com/caps/ The platform itself is and remains open-source.

Transitive Robotics announces Transitive 2.0 open-source robotics framework

chfritz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:46:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.therobotreport.com/transitive-robotics-announces-transitive-2-0-open-source-robotics-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757604

Points: 2

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