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A Steam Deck running Foxglove

Teleoperating the LeKiwi Robot from a Steam Deck

CommunityTutorialApr 28, 2026

Learn how to turn a Steam Deck into a portable all-in-one LeKiwi controller and Foxglove monitoring station using Pixi, Distrobox, and ROS 2.

Bring Your Own Storage

Bring Your Own Storage

Product ReleaseData ManagementApr 22, 2026

Bring Your Own Storage lets enterprises keep raw MCAP data at rest in their own cloud storage while Foxglove manages the compute for indexing, query, and visualization.

Data Search + Curation

Data Search & Curation

Product ReleaseData ManagementApr 21, 2026

Search MCAP data at petabyte scale. Curate results as sessions, events, and the training datasets that feed your next model iteration.

Device properties in the Foxglove Properties tab

Track device property changes over time in Foxglove

Product ReleaseApr 21, 2026

Foxglove now records a full timeline for device properties—whether you update them in the UI or via the API—so teams can see when metadata changed and what it was before.

Foxglove Basic Seats announcement

Basic Seats

Product ReleaseApr 20, 2026

Basic Seats let you share data visualization across your team without paying for full developer capabilities - ideal for field ops, executives, and contractors who need access without authoring.

We're reducing self-service prices for Foxglove

We're reducing self-service prices for Foxglove

Product ReleaseApr 20, 2026

Self-service pricing now starts lower, with Pro at $20/month for 1 TB storage and 3 Developer Seats, unlimited Basic Seats on paid plans, and new volume discount tiers as usage grows.

Live TF frames and navigation paths overlaid on photorealistic 3D map tiles in Foxglove.

Extension: Bringing photorealistic 3D maps to Foxglove for outdoor robot navigation

CommunityROSApr 6, 2026

Jion Kubo shares a Foxglove extension that renders photorealistic 3D tiles, fuses ROS 2 robot data in a local ENU frame, and publishes goals and clicked points without leaving the 3D view.

Foxglove PlaybackControl demo showing local MCAP replay

Connect Foxglove to your local player with PlaybackControl

ArticleApr 1, 2026

Keep your existing data format, control playback from the Foxglove UI, and replay the same run again and again.

ANYmal with Boxi payload traversing forest path.

GrandTour: Taking Legged Robotics Into the Wild

CommunityROSMar 26, 2026

Introducing GrandTour: a large-scale, open-access legged-robotics dataset spanning 49 missions across diverse conditions to accelerate the development and benchmarking of autonomy algorithms.

Actuate 26 event graphic: For people who build robots. Aug. 18–19, 2026, Fort Mason, San Francisco. Presented by Foxglove.

Actuate 26: The Developer Conference for People Who Build Robots

ActuateMar 24, 2026

This August, more than 1,000 robotics developers will gather in San Francisco for Actuate 26, our annual conference for the engineers and technical leaders building the next generation of AI for the physical world.

Depth Image Rendering: PNG Support and RGB Colorization

Depth Image Rendering: PNG Support and RGB Colorization

Product ReleaseMar 11, 2026

Foxglove now supports PNG compressed depth images as 3D point clouds, RGB colorization from sibling images, and custom color modes for depth encodings in the Image panel.

Announcing Sessions in Foxglove

Announcing Sessions in Foxglove

Product ReleaseMar 11, 2026

Sessions are a new way to organize and analyze device data in Foxglove that maps directly to how robotics developers view and analyze data.

Get Started with Foxglove: Videos for New Users

Get Started with Foxglove: Videos for New Users

TutorialMar 6, 2026

If you're getting started with Foxglove, one of the fastest ways to learn is by opening real data and seeing how the app works in practice.

Calibrating a monocular camera for the LeKiwi robot using ROS 2

Calibrating a monocular camera for the LeKiwi robot using ROS 2

CommunityMar 4, 2026

This article details the process of calibrating a USB webcam for the LeKiwi robot, modifying the standard ROS 2 camera calibration process to run headless without a display, using terminal logging and automatic result saving.

Header image for Announcing Programmatic Layouts in Foxglove

Announcing Programmatic Layouts in Foxglove

Product ReleaseFeb 18, 2026

Define, compose, and reuse Foxglove layouts entirely from code in Notebooks

Header image for Announcing: Tabs for the Foxglove Desktop App

Announcing: Tabs for the Foxglove Desktop App

Product ReleaseFeb 12, 2026

Work with multiple datasets in a single window instead of juggling separate instances.

Hero image for Upgrading the LeKiwi into a LiDAR-equipped explorer

Upgrading the LeKiwi into a LiDAR-equipped explorer

CommunityTutorialFeb 7, 2026

Upgrading LeKiwi robot with a 2D LiDAR and ROS 2, transforming it into a low-cost open-source autonomous platform

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Turning a VLP‑16 Into a “Spherical” Scanner

TutorialCommunityJan 31, 2026

How a secondhand VLP‑16, one extra mechanical axis, and encoder-based deskewing turned into a cave-mapping learning project