Learn how to visualize an Isaac Sim simulation in real time using Foxglove’s custom extension. Let's go! 🤖 🚀
Many robotics engineers use
@nvidia
Omniverse’s popular Isaac Sim to simulate and test robotic systems in a realistic 3D environment, enabling effective algorithm
✨ Announcing Foxglove 2.0 ✨
We’re setting a new standard in robotics observability by making it faster, easier, and cheaper to understand how your machines sense, think, and act:
🤝 Streamlined UI for smoother robotics observability
📡 Automatic data offload through
Forestry is a major industry in many parts of the world. There’s a lot of potential for robotics to efficiently automate and improve a lot of the sustainability practices that are performed manually today.
The Foxglove team is thrilled to announce that we've raised $3.7M in seed funding, led by
@AmplifyPartners
!
We can't wait to continue building the best
#robotics
developer tools for the
#openSource
community – here's to a great 2022 🍾
@OpenRoboticsOrg
The Foxglove team is having a great time at
#ICRA2024
in Japan!
Stop by booth IC018 to discuss your robotics
#DataViz
with our experts, meet our mascot Bodi, and enter our raffle for your very own LEGO Star Wars R2-D2!
We're here at
@ieee_ras_icra
all week!
#Robotics
The ARM is one of the first robotic automations to be used at scale in production, primarily manufacturing. It’s a great representative of why you should use Foxglove when you’re building a robot. 🤖
Add a URDF file to Foxglove’s 3D panel. Then, place your robot model in the
A few robotics fans took
@BostonDynamics
' Spot® for a walk. 🐾 No doggie bags required!
Good thing the Foxglove Bridge for live connections enables you to go beyond the core
#ROS
schemas to customize the content & structure of
#robotics
data.
Simulation plays a crucial role in robotics development. Developers can assess their algorithms and designs without physical prototypes. This tutorial will demonstrate how to simulate a robotic arm with Gazebo and visualize it with
@Foxglove
.
Our first blog post is hot off the press 🗞️🔥
Allow us to (re-)introduce you to what we’re building, and what we’ve put on our roadmap for the glorious future!
#ROS
#robotics
#DataVisualization
The agriculture industry is seeing a big uplift with the use of autonomous robots. 🙌
This agriculture AMR provides sensor data from Lidar, IMUs, GPS, RGBD and thermal cameras to better understand the ground, the soils, and surrounding elements—all using Foxglove’s powerful
SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is crucial for autonomous robotic systems, enabling efficient navigation and mapping in unknown environments.
While ROS's tf2 library provides an easy way to calculate transforms, let's take a peek at what this library is actually doing under the hood 🔎
#robotics
#developers
Benjamin Evans, a postdoctoral researcher at
@StellenboschUni
specializing in deep learning and
#robotics
, recently posted about his experience with Foxglove:
"Foxglove remains one of my favourite tools for making high-quality visualisations of racing performance. I use the
With Foxglove Studio v0.23, the 3D panel's topic picker now has a "3D Model" entry that loads
#ROS
#URDF
files for live
#ROS1
&
#ROS2
connections – all within the context of your 3D scene.
Check out the full release here:
@OpenRoboticsOrg
#Robotics
#rviz
The LUVMI-XR Team from Space Applications competed in the 2021
#SpaceResourcesChallenge
to qualify for the 2022 finals 🚀
While the team started with RViz, they switched to Foxglove Studio to build custom panels for teleoperating their rover fleet 🤖
@OpenRoboticsOrg
#Robotics
Starting from ROS 2 Iron Irwini, you can now record your
#ROS
data directly to
#MCAP
files, for more seamless integration with 3rd party tools!
Special thanks to
@OpenRoboticsOrg
@ApexAI_Inc
@rosorg
for working with us on this large community-led effort!
Introducing Foxglove Studio’s redesigned navigation ✨
Our 🆕 streamlined UI makes it easier than ever to explore your
#robotics
data – whether you're loading data sources, building layouts, or configuring
#DataVisualization
settings.
@OpenRoboticsOrg
Trying to migrate from using ROS 1 to ROS 2? Need a refresher on the high-level concepts? New to ROS altogether?
Check out our latest post for a crash course in ROS 2's most essential basics 🤓
👉
@OpenRoboticsOrg
@rosorg
#Robotics
#Robots
#OpenSource
Roboticist Ruffin White has been developing an
#OpenSource
web platform to teach robotics to students with limited computing resources.
It leverages
@code
, Gzweb, & Foxglove Studio to provide free remote access to a professional
#robotics
dev experience.
Our team is currently working to improve Foxglove Studio's on-ramping experience.
We're looking for both new & experienced users to participate in our feedback sessions (& get some company swag!) 🤖
Drop a 🙋 if you're interested!
@OpenRoboticsOrg
#Robotics
#DataVisualization
Listening to your
#ROS
robot from a web page can help you build operator dashboards & share insights across your org.
Check out our
#Rosbridge
tutorial to learn how to interact with your robot from the comfort of your browser 💻
@OpenRoboticsOrg
@rosorg
Stream sensor data from your iPhone to Foxglove Studio with our 🆕
#iOS
app!
Whether you’re testing Studio for the first time or demoing it to your
#robotics
team, get up & running fast with the Foxglove WebSocket Bridge app.
@OpenRoboticsOrg
#OpenSource
Foxglove v1.69 is out now 🪅
You can now drag & drop topic message fields from the app sidebar into supported panels (Raw Messages, Image, Plot, State Transitions, Table) to visualize their data!
@OpenRoboticsOrg
#Robotics
#DataVisualization
#OpenSource
Another great day at
#ICRA2024
is off to a great start!
We're raffling off our LEGO R2-D2 robot to one lucky winner at 11 am local time! Stop by booth IC018 to celebrate the winner & discuss your
#robotics
use case with our experts. Don't miss the duck race also at our booth! 🦆
🎉Happy world 🐢 day!
𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗢𝗦 𝟮 𝗜𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗶!
This release is notable for both its size and the amount of support we've received from the
#ROS
community!
Details at:
#ROS
2 Humble introduced the concept of lifecycle nodes, a new type of node that can be managed through 4 states and ultimately provide roboticists finer-grained control of their
#robotics
systems.
With our latest tutorial, you can learn how lifecycle nodes work, understand
🚙 The Audi A2D2 dataset, visualized using Foxglove 🚙
This dataset explores point cloud segmentation that merges semantic pixel data with lidar inputs to precisely label each 3D point, enhancing object detection and classification capabilities.
The meticulous calibration
“Large accelerations, rotations, and apparent motion in vision sensors make aggressive trajectories difficult for state estimation.”
This drone racing around by an expert pilot while Foxglove visualizes its
#ROS
data is a brilliant way to experience a very aggressive
Looking to dive into
#robotics
for the first time? Want to learn more about
#ROS
, and whether it's the right choice for your project? ✍🤓
You're in luck! Check out our latest blog post for a high-level crash course on the Robot Operating System 🖲🤖
We built MCAP to help
#robotics
teams spend less time building commodity tools & more time tackling their core challenges.
Check out our latest tutorial to learn how you can record your
#JSON
data to an MCAP file using
#Python
🧑🏫
👉
#OpenSource
#Robots
Sneak preview of something else we are working on for the next version: native URDF visualization for Foxglove Studio. Looking for beta testers!
@OpenRoboticsOrg
#ROS
The integration of RGB-D cameras in robotics for generating dense 3D maps of indoor environments is crucial for robot navigation, manipulation, semantic mapping, and telepresence.
The proposed RGB-D mapping system employs a joint optimization algorithm that merges visual
If you missed
@adrianmacneil
's talk on robotics observability at
#ROSCon2023
, not to worry!
Check out the presentation slides for a full rundown on:
- The pillars of
#robotics
observability
- Why it matters for your robotics team's success
- What the existing tools miss
- How
🌳 Treescope provides ground-truth data, including sensor data from
#Lidar
, IMU, GPS, RGBD, and thermal cameras, for semantic segmentation and diameter estimation from agricultural environments to address the counting and mapping of trees in forestry and orchards.
This video
@momahmood_
👋Actually working with a friend on 2 rovers with lidar, imu, gps and realsense cams (one on ROS1, on on ROS2) + building custom panels for awesome
@foxglovedev
When visualizing point clouds, customizing colors can make a scan easier to interpret (& streamline your analysis!) 🌈
Now, you can use ROS / Foxglove schemas to color point cloud messages in Foxglove Studio.
@OpenRoboticsOrg
@rosorg
#Robotics
#Robots
🤖 Robots: They aren't like us at all! They can perform boring, repetitive work in industries like
#manufacturing
and agriculture that require precision without tiring.
In fact, there's a LOT that robots can to do make our lives easier. Let's take a look at the top 10 robotics
Happy holidays from the Foxglove team 🎄🎅🤶
Thank you for a year of hacking along with us! We've been so humbled by the enthusiastic support of all our users in the
#robotics
and
#openSource
community.
We can't wait to see what 2022 has in store!
@OpenRoboticsOrg
@svrobo
If you're looking for a better way to organize your panels & simplify your busy layouts in Foxglove Studio, look no further 🔎✨
Check out our Tab panels demo to learn how to group + stack your panels for more streamlined layouts 📈
#ROS
#robots
#robotics
#DataVisualization
#Robotics
will have a huge impact on the global economy and human productivity over the next decade.
Our mission is to expand robotics' GDP, and we're building powerful software to achieve this ... and we need your help.
#Hiring
🧵⬇️
✨ Foxglove user spotlight! ✨
HyTech Racing (
@GeorgiaTech
) has been working on an integration of Foxglove on a driven formula student car for use with an existing CAN network infrastructure.
Thanks for sharing your project with us.
#robotics
#DataViz
You can use
#ROS
transforms to position your robot's components in relation to each other & the world they navigate.
In our latest tutorial, learn how to calculate the position of detected objects with the
#ROS
tf2 library 🤖
@OpenRoboticsOrg
#Robotics
🇯🇵 What an epic week in Japan at
#ICRA2024
! Here are some highlights ✨
🚀 We were thrilled to see F1 autonomy team, Véhicule Autonome de l’Université Laval (VAUL) leveraging Foxglove for
#DataViz
.
🐕 It felt like we took a beloved puppy to the dog park as we watched our