Founder @transitiverob and creator of @bibbase. Mostly opinionate about robotics, scaling robotic fleets, robotics business models, and AI.
Joined January 2009
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Christian Fritz retweeted
Apr 30
This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.
Feb 4
you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding
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Christian Fritz retweeted
🌷ROS 2 Lyrical Luth Beta Testing Party
🌷New ROS Adopters List
🌷@SkildAI acquires Fetch Robotics IP
🌷@transitiverob 2.0 robotics framework
🌷@LocusRobotics launches Locus Array
🌷 @GazeboSim Meeting: LED Plugin tutorial
🌷 150 new and 540 updated ROS 2 Jazzy Packages
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Christian Fritz retweeted
Transitive 2.0 is here! Adding MQTT-history storage in ClickHouse, visualization in Grafana, and alerting via Alertmanager. See these new features in action in the updated Health Monitoring capability.
therobotreport.com/transitiv…
#clickhouse #robotics #grafana
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Jan 8
All those people who talk about the "data flywheel" in (physical) AI don't know what a flywheel is, do they?
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Jan 6
AI is biting the hand that feeds it. Most obvious evidence: the drop in questions on StackOverflow after ChatGPT came out. How will AI get better if it replaces its own source of training data?
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Jan 3
Just another day living in the future. In LA, just outside The Broad.
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29 Dec 2025
I have been entertaining this thesis for a while and finally wrote it down. Tl;dr: No need to simulate life for it to exist -- "it's the thought that counts". Please share your thoughts.
chfritz.github.io/writing/li…
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6 Dec 2025
If that person had been a roboticist, they would have known what to do: stand in front of the car. It would have saved the cat's life.
nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/wa…
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Christian Fritz retweeted
4 Dec 2025
Hmmm, so this lot flooded but the Waymo still drove in it. I mean, it managed it fine but I was a bit concerned at first.
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8 Oct 2025
I'm forced to judge a modern-day Turing test:
Level 1: Is the designer I hired on Upwork actually a human or an AI? Their work and communication looks very AI generated.
Level 2: Telling _which_ AI they used. Definitely sounds very agreeable, like chatGPT.
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Christian Fritz retweeted
7 Oct 2025
The number of robotics companies who take pride in reinventing the wheel re. infrastructure and tooling is ridiculous. If you want to succeed at "solving X using robotics", then focus on the application and use existing components for everything else.
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12 Sep 2025
Developers who think AI made their coding job easier are so wrong: it made it a lot harder! It raises the bar. Now you can only compete on quality, and you absolutely have to!
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Christian Fritz retweeted
11 Sep 2025
Funny to see joysticks like this advertised for playing farming simulators. Our users "play" the real-world with these kinds of controllers!
transitiverobotics.com/caps/…
#Robotics
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11 Aug 2025
Vibe coding done wrong is like wearing blinkers or always driving with GPS. Sure, you might reach your goal faster, but good luck if you get lost. If you didn't look around while going, you didn't learn by doing.
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7 Aug 2025
When will vendors realize that AI generated pseudo-personalization in cold emails just lands them in spam even faster?
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