Transitive Robotics

Announcing WebRTC Video v1.0! ? ?? After streaming over 25,000 hours and 13 TB of video from over 200 robots, 2 years of production use by over a dozen customers, 200,000 sessions, 25 minor releases, and 120 patch releases, we believe it is time to declare WebRTC Video *stable*. Recent improvements included in v1.0: - vastly increased robustness over poor networks (packet loss, bandwidth fluctuation), - added hardware acceleration for Intel chipsets such as HD Graphics (in addition to the existing Nvidia and RockChip support), - added local mode, allowing offline usage on local networks, - 3x less CPU usage when using software encoder, - much improved CPU efficiency when using ROS topics as video source, - support for ROS topics carrying pre-encoded h264 video, - increased data savings when scene is static, - many ease-of-use improvements, incl. auto-bitrate and better error recovery. At this point we believe this is the best video-streaming solution available in the market for robots, and cheaper than many alternatives by a margin. If on top of this you need channel bonding (e.g., dual SIM), please reach out. #robotics #ros https://lnkd.in/g-4ykWvG

?? New record today: over 80 daily active robots. ?? Our most popular capabilities right now are WebRTC Video and Remote Teleop. But also the relatively new ROS Tool is growing in popularity. We see the most traction in AgTech and adjacent areas, but also see larger deployments in warehouse logistics, hospital delivery, yard automation, and inspection.

Announcing transAct: An open-source robot fleet management dashboard https://lnkd.in/gecPT6y9 Why We Built It Robotics companies with fleets of more than a handful of robots need web dashboards to monitor and operate their fleets. They enable non-engineers to monitor, triage and sometimes fix issues in the field, which is required for operational efficiency and to free engineers from daily interruptions. This is particularly important with a RaaS business model. But who builds these dashboards? Engineers are already spread thin due to the large number of aspects of robotics they need to attend to (hardware, firmware, drivers, robotics stack, cloud, web) so building their own web dashboards from scratch is challenging, especially since the skills required for web development are quite different from the rest of the robotics software stack. At Transitive Robotics we see it as our mission to enable robotics companies to build their own fleet management systems quickly and easily. We've already developed a number of?capabilities?like webrtc video streaming and remote teleop that robotics companies can install on their robots and integrate into their own dashboards. But many companies, especially smaller ones, don't yet have web dashboards for fleet management of their own. This is why we created transAct. Purpose TransAct serves multiple purposes: 1. Provide a starting template for companies to build their own fleet management dashboards, 2. Serve as a reference implementation showing how to integrate Transitive capabilities into such dashboard, and 3. Show how you can use the?ROS Tool?React API to interact with ROS directly from the web (while avoiding the shortcomings of rosbridge + roslibjs) and the?Transitive SDK?to get full programmatic access to all the data provided by these capabilities. Current Features In the current version transAct already embeds several capabilities: - Remote Teleop, to control your robot with low-latency video from anywhere in the world, - Terminal, for web-based shell access without the need for a VPN, - ROS Tool, for subscribing to ROS topics from the web, used to show robot pose, battery, and charging status in our example, and make ROS service calls, - Configuration Management, for editing config files on your fleet hierarchically (with fleet defaults and robot specific overwrites), and - Health Monitoring, for monitoring device diagnostics and aggregated fleet diagnostics. We invite you to fork transAct and extend it to meet your needs and we'd love to hear your feedback and questions, here or on our?Slack community. #robotics #ros

https://lnkd.in/gEcNxhYs: "the proportion of robots in industrial settings doubled between 2017 and 2022" "South Korea leads the world in robot density, with about 1,000 robots per 10,000 workers."

Announcing Remote Teleop v0.9.3 with newly added support for multi-touch on mobile devices. Now you can create slick layouts like this one to allow two-handed control of your robots over the Internet using highly efficient and secure WebRTC. See the full list of recently added features in the Changelog: https://lnkd.in/gGD7cDdt #robotics #ros

Announcing ros-tool: A better way to interact with ROS from the web Our new, free ros-tool capability makes it trivial to interact with ROS from the web. It provides a React API for subscribing and publish to topics and for placing service calls. It works with both ROS 1 and 2, and unlike rosbridge, it caches all data in the cloud, which means your UIs will work even when your robot is offline (just showing the latest data). Since all data is synced via the cloud, it is also much easier and more efficient to aggregate data from multiple robots, e.g., for showing your fleet on a map. Demo: https://lnkd.in/gUi8Mvyw Details and getting started: https://lnkd.in/gnMjmTpm #ros #ros2 #robotics

SDK v0.10 released! ?? We've made it a lot easier to use Transitive in React! The new React component we provide in the web SDK dynamically loads the right version for your device and embeds it. For instance, to embed our remote-teleop capability with live video you can now just use:

Have you used the cloud in robotics? We (the Cloud Robotics Working Group from ROS Discourse) want to hear about your experience in this ten-minute survey. We're looking to understand the state of cloud robotics and how we can help to improve it. If you can spare the time, we would really appreciate it!