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Dev tools · January 17, 2024

Transitive, an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software

After three years in development, I'm thrilled to share Transitive: an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software (https://github.com/transitiverobotics/transitive). The Transitive framework makes it easy to build robot cloud portals. Even given all the great open-source tools for web development and device management, building such cloud portals for robots is still not an easy task. There are several reasons for this, but a big one is that robots are different from regular servers, despite many people attempting to tread them as such. They go offline a lot,…

Transitive, an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software launched on January 17, 2024 with 12 votes, #1,193 of 4,438 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

In plain words

Transitive is an open-source framework designed to simplify building cloud portals for robot fleets. It addresses the unique challenges of robotic software development, such as handling offline robots, limited bandwidth, version management across devices, and syncing data between robots and cloud systems. Built after three years of development, it provides a full-stack solution for developers working with distributed robotic systems that differ fundamentally from traditional server infrastructure.

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From the sources

We are thrilled to announce the self-hosted version of Transitive, the open-source framework for full-stack robotic software.

In the maker’s words, at launch

After three years in development, I'm thrilled to share Transitive: an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software (https://github.com/transitiverobotics/transitive). The Transitive framework makes it easy to build robot cloud portals. Even given all the great open-source tools for web…

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