In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Christian Fritz, CEO and founder of Transitive Robotics. Transitive Robotics makes software for building full stack robotics applications. In this conversation, they talk about how Transitive Robotic’s software works, their business model, sandboxing for security, creating a marketplace for robotics applications, and web tools, in general.

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EPISODE LINKS:
– Christian’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianfritz/}
– Transitive Robotics’ Website: https://transitiverobotics.com/}
– Transitive Robotics on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/transitive–robotics/}
– Transitive Robotics’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/transitiverob}
– Sign up for Transitive Robotics’ Beta: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctAX9NI6IlZ10e7n408NSxULLKbbSyx8rrQSsLVECtlpHbeg/viewform}
– Contact Transitive Robotics: mailto:[email protected]}

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OUTLINE:
– (0:00:00) Episode introduction
– (0:01:09) Introducing Christian and Transitive Robotics
– (0:06:52) Fleet management + networking challenges
– (0:17:15) Problems in fleet management
– (0:21:23) Business model
– (0:26:21) Using MQQT for message passing
– (0:30:28) Developing your own capabilities
– (0:35:35) Testing capabilities
– (0:36:44) Sending data: authentication and authorization
– (0:43:32) Sandboxing for safety
– (0:56:10) Discussing web technologies
– (1:01:03) Open source business models
– (1:05:38) Scaling, finding market fit, and taking investment
– (1:15:57) Plans in starting a marketplace
– (1:20:01) Plans to grow the team + remote work
– (1:29:36) Web and robotics
– (1:33:08) Web technologies on the backend
– (1:34:59) Future of robotics

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