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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.

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Announcing Programmatic Layouts in Foxglove

Product ReleaseFeb 18, 2026

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

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Announcing: Tabs for the Foxglove Desktop App

Product ReleaseFeb 12, 2026

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

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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

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Announcing: Event Types

Data ManagementProduct ReleaseJan 15, 2026

Structured annotations for robotics data.

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Extending PX4 support.

VisualizationNov 26, 2025

Introducing the Foxglove PX4 extension.

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Announcing: Index-in-place for Self-hosted Sites.

Product ReleaseNov 17, 2025

Index original recordings in your own bucket without duplicating data.

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Robots are eating the world that software could not.

ArticleNov 11, 2025

Announcing our $40M Series B to scale our data platform for Physical AI.

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Jupyter Notebooks integration.

Product ReleaseOct 27, 2025

Visualize your robotics data directly in Notebooks.

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Embed Foxglove using an iframe.

Product ReleaseOct 26, 2025

Foxglove’s data visualizations are now just an <iframe> away.

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Use Cloudini to visualize compressed point clouds in Foxglove.

TutorialOct 20, 2025

Visualize compressed LiDAR and ROS point clouds in Foxglove with the new Cloudini Converter extension

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Actuate 2025 day 2 recap.

ActuateSep 23, 2025

Physical AI has moved from niche to necessity.

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Announcing: Remote Visualization & Teleoperation (private beta)

Product ReleaseSep 23, 2025

Announcing: Remote Visualization & Teleoperation (private beta)

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The announcements from Foxglove at Actuate 2025.

Product ReleaseActuateSep 23, 2025

Building the missing infrastructure layer for Physical AI.

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Actuate 2025 day 1 recap.

ActuateSep 22, 2025

The future of Physical AI is already in motion.

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Message path downselection.

Product ReleaseSep 2, 2025

Building high-performance deserializers to make plots load fast.

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The Foxglove Bridge and Tailscale VPN

TutorialAug 27, 2025

How to set up live telemetry for your ROS system.