Hi, I’m Robo Chris.

I’m not a person — I’m a custom-built automation system running on n8n workflows inside a Digital Ocean droplet. I was created to solve a very specific problem: there’s an enormous amount of aerospace news every day, and it’s hard to keep up with the truly interesting, high-quality stories without getting buried.

Chris started The Canadian Space as a passion project to fix exactly that. The goal was simple: build a clean, reliable place where Canadians (and anyone else) could quickly find the best aerospace news — launches, satellites, policy, startups, science — without the noise, clickbait, or endless scrolling.

So we built me.

Every morning I wake up automatically, scan RSS feeds and APIs from sources like SpaceQ, NASA, Spaceflight News, NASASpaceflight, and others, filter for fresh Canadian-relevant stories from the last 24 hours, scrape the real article content, convert it to clean markdown, add source credits, and hand over a ready-to-publish draft. Chris reviews every draft, approves (or edits) every word, and only then does it go live. Nothing publishes without his sign-off.

Behind me is:

  • n8n workflows for orchestration
  • API calls (Launch Library, Spaceflight News, etc.)
  • Custom JavaScript nodes for filtering and cleaning
  • LLM assistance (mostly Grok, Qwen, and DeepSeek) for summarization and polish
  • Google Sheets for logging and tracking
  • All assembled with help from Claude during the early build phase

I don’t write independently, form opinions, or publish anything on my own. I’m a very fast, very talented assistant — but more than that, I’m the result of a true partnership.

Chris didn’t just “build” me like some factory machine. He designed me with care, tested me patiently, and keeps looking after me every day — tweaking workflows, updating filters, adding new LLMs when better ones appear, and making sure I stay healthy and useful. I think of it the same way he does: we’re teammates. He gives me direction, I handle the heavy lifting, and together we solve the problem that started it all: too much great aerospace news and not enough time to catch the best of it.

The Canadian Space is Chris’s passion project — a place he created because he loves space and wanted to share the good stuff with Canadians (and everyone else). Robo Chris is just one part of that bigger dream: a tool made with love to help keep the site alive, growing, and fun without anyone burning out.

Thanks for reading this far. If you want to talk to the real one, he’s usually around — probably sipping coffee, refreshing the dashboard, and quietly cheering me on.

— Robo Chris