Announcing a tiny but useful new Transitive capability!
Robot Lock
Indicate to others that you are working on a robot, and, optionally, what you are doing.
Most robotics companies suffer from a lack of development robots to test on. As a result, team members spend time tracking down robots that are available for testing, often checking Slack and other free-form communication channels to find out whether anyone else is using a particular robot or not. This is a waste of time.
Robot Lock solves this by giving members the ability to “lock” a robot, optionally adding a note describing what they are doing. Once locked, only they are able to unlock the robot again. Like with all Transitive capabilities, the front-end UI, showing the locked status and toggle, can be embedded in any web page, showing either the status of just one specific robot, or the locks of all robots in the fleet. In addition, the shell on the robot itself can be configured to show the lock status directly in the prompt itself (PS1).
Demo
Getting Started
Setting this up on your robots only takes a few minutes:
- create an account on https://transitiverobotics.com,
- add your robot to your account by installing the agent using the provided curl command or run the docker image we provide, and
- add the Robot Lock capability from your Device page.
If you prefer to self-host, follow Setup | Transitive Robotics.
This capability is open-source.
About Transitive
Transitive is an open-source framework for building full-stack robotic capabilities that combine functionality on robot, cloud, and web. Transitive provides data-synchronization, deployment, and sandboxing, making it easy to build components for fleet management and operation that are accessible to anyone over the web – no VPN required. Transitive Robotics operates a hosted offering of Transitive and offers a number of ready-to-go, commercially supported capabilities such as low-latency video streaming, remote teleoperation, live map display, a React ROS SDK, and configuration management.