Custom Capabilities in Transitive Robotics - Again | Cloud Robotics WG Meeting 2026-05-04

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Please come and join us for this coming meeting at 2026-05-04T16:00:00Z→2026-05-04T17:00:00Z, where we plan to continue our Transitive Robotics tryout by trying one of the more advanced features: writing and deploying a custom capability. This feature allows customers to write their own custom code and deploy it to their robots alongside the features available directly from Transitive Robotics.

We did attempt this tryout last session (hence why the title might be familiar!), but as I used an unsupported system for setting up the development environment, most of the session was spent on the initial setup. Hence, we’re repeating the session using a supported operating system. If you’re interested in watching the meeting anyway, it is available on YouTube.

The meeting link for next meeting is here, and you can sign up to our calendar or our Google Group for meeting notifications or keep an eye on the Cloud Robotics Hub.

Hopefully we will see you there!

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If anyone would like to make a request or suggestion for what capability we should build, please let us know! As a reminder, Transitive capabilities combine robot code + cloud code + web code to provide end-to-end functionality including logic, cross device data-sync, and UI.

Good candidates for Transitive capabilities are ROS packages that you wish you could use:

  • remotely – without VPN, SSH, and X-forwarding,
  • in aggregate – multiple robots at once, not just one at a time – and
  • with “rewind” – the ability to move back in time to watch a “replay” of what just happened.

You can look at the list of existing capabilities for inspiration.