47 days until #Actuate26! Excited to have Guillaume Doisy, VP of Autonomous Systems at @dexoryHQ, as a speaker this year! A PhD roboticist and core contributor to the ROS 2 Navigation2 stack, Guillaume previously served as Chief Robotics Officer at AMR startup Wyca before joining Dexory to lead the autonomy systems behind their warehouse scanning robots. Dexory's autonomous robots scan warehouse racks up to 60 feet tall without GPS or infrastructure modifications, feeding a live digital twin of operations in real time — and have raised $165M Series C to scale across global logistics customers. Space for this year's Actuate is limited. Get your tickets to hear Guillaume, and 20 other technical experts in autonomous robotics, share their challenges & breakthroughs on stage: hubs.li/Q04mFPjT0

48 days until #Actuate26! Excited to have @pulkitology, Co-Founder at @EkaRobotics, as a speaker this year! An Associate Professor at MIT as part of the CSAIL lab and Co-Founder of Eka Robotics, Pulkit is pioneering a shift from position to force intelligence in robotic manipulation, enabling faster, more reliable dexterous control. Eka Robotics is commercializing this research into hardware-agnostic foundation models built around force-first principles, targeting the core unsolved problem standing between today's robots and broad real-world deployment. Space for this year's Actuate is limited. Get your tickets to hear Pulkit, and 20 other technical experts in autonomous robotics, share their challenges & breakthroughs on stage: hubs.li/Q04mGjTf0

49 days until #Actuate26! Excited to have @theo_gervet, Co-Founder at @gs_ai_, as a speaker this year! A former research scientist at Mistral AI with a PhD from CMU, Theophile co-founded Genesis AI to build full-stack generalist robots from the ground up, including their own dexterous robotic hand, data collection glove, and foundation model. Genesis launched out of stealth with $105M in seed funding and recently unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotic brain capable of multi-step dexterous tasks like cooking full meals, pipetting in labs, and solving a Rubik's cube at human-level speed. Space for this year's Actuate is limited. Get your tickets to hear Theophile, and 20 other technical experts in autonomous robotics, share their challenges & breakthroughs on stage: hubs.li/Q04n3Cr50

50 days until #Actuate26! Excited to have @kevinmpeterson1, Co-Founder & CTO at @BedrockRobotics, as a speaker this year! Kevin spent over two decades building self-driving cars and led perception for Waymo's autonomous trucking division before co-founding Bedrock to bring the same autonomy technology to construction equipment. Bedrock retrofits existing machinery like excavators to enable full self-operating capabilities, and has raised $350M to tackle a construction industry where productivity has barely improved in decades. Space for this year's Actuate is limited. Get your tickets to hear Kevin, and 20 other technical experts in autonomous robotics, share their challenges & breakthroughs on stage: hubs.li/Q04mGdzz0

54 days until #Actuate26! Excited to have @GummadiMeghna, Robotics Tech Lead & Founding Member of Technical Staff at @FoundryRobotics, as a speaker this year! Meghna earned her PhD from UPenn's GRASP Lab researching continual learning and novelty detection in AI systems, and built her production robotics chops at Burro deploying autonomous outdoor robots in agriculture. Foundry Robotics is building the "Everything Factory" — an AI-first, modular robotic assembly platform for the defense industrial base, designed to rapidly switch between products without the retooling costs of traditional manufacturing. Space for this year's Actuate is limited. Get your tickets to hear Meghna, and 20 other technical experts in autonomous robotics, share their challenges & breakthroughs on stage: hubs.li/Q04mG9b70

📅 Actuate26 is two months away! If you're a robotics developer, this conference is for you! Two full days of autonomy and physical AI talks from leading engineers and technical leaders in the space. Purchase your tickets now at: hubs.li/Q04lJtHf0 #RViz #ROS2 #Foxglove #ROS

Another post @kamathsblog! In this blog, he published a detailed walkthrough on adding autonomous navigation to the @huggingface LeKiwi robot using Nav2 and ROS 2, visualized entirely through Foxglove. LeKiwi is an open-source holonomic platform, and this post covers the full stack from sensor prerequisites to sending navigation goals on a live map. The implementation includes LiDAR angular filtering with laser_filters to remove a pan-tilt camera obstruction, SLAM-based mapping with slam_toolbox in async mode, and a choice between two localization methods: slam_toolbox's built-in pose graph localization or AMCL with a particle filter. For navigation, Aditya went with an MPPI controller configured for an omnidirectional base and a SMAC 2D planner. He also wrote a small twist_switch_node to toggle cleanly between teleop and Nav2 velocity commands via a controller button — a neat practical touch. It's a good reference if you're setting up Nav2 on a non-differential drive platform. Blog post: hubs.li/Q04lcrkk0

"It's not just for beans, you have to do this for trillions of ingredients, zero-shot. It's a way harder problem than meets the eye." My interview with @RajatBhageria, founder and CEO of @ChefRobotics is live! Chef is tackling one of the hardest categories in robotics: food production. It’s messy, variable, physical, operationally intense, and full of edge cases. Exactly the kind of environment where the best robotics teams build the data flywheel that makes robot data actionable to improve autonomy and scale. I really enjoyed this discussion - thinking about starting a series of in-person founder interviews like this. Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed it, and who should I speak to next?

📅 Robotics events to mark on you calendars for June: - June 18th: Physical AI Happy Hour (Seattle, WA) | Register here: hubs.li/Q04kwVkW0 - June 22nd - 24th: Energy Drone & Robotics Summit (Houston, TX) - June 22nd - 25th: Automate 2026 (Chicago, IL)

Foxglove is at ICRA! Come visit us at Booth #070. Also if you're free tomorrow night, join us at the ROS Meetup. A few spots are still left: hubs.li/Q04jzbLm0

🚨 2 days left to get your early bird tickets for #Actuate26! If you're a robotics developer, this is your chance to learn from the leading technical engineers on autonomy and physical AI. Buy your ticket now to join us on August 18th & 19th in San Francisco! #RViz #robotics #ROS2

REMINDER: It's your last week to purchase early bird tickets for #Actuate26! Register here 👉: hubs.li/Q04hSGHL0 For those that haven't attended, Actuate is the premiere robotics developer conference, giving a stage to the leading companies and engineers in autonomy and physical AI. This year, we'll bring together 1,000 attendees to experience a full lineup of technical presentations, industry leader keynotes, and a 15,000 square foot exhibition hall. The full schedule and speaker lineup releases next month, however, discounted early bird tickets end on Sunday.

📆 We have two upcoming robotics & physical AI happy hours! If you're in Boston or Seattle, register now as space is limited. 📍 Boston, MA - Wednesday, May 27th: hubs.li/Q04h4N9S0 📍 Seattle, WA - Thursday, June 18th: hubs.li/Q04h4M0R0 Boston is next week during #RoboticsSummit, so if you're attending, stop by after day 1 of the conference and connect with other robotics developers. We'll provide the food & drink!

For teams debugging robot incidents after the fact, one of the hardest questions is: what was this device's configuration when it failed? Foxglove now tracks the full history of device property changes over time, turning device metadata from a static label into a queryable timeline. Every change to a device property — whether made through the UI or via the API — is recorded with a timestamp. Teams can see exactly when a device moved from staging to production, how long a feature flag was active, or what configuration was running during a specific incident window. The history is editable: incorrect records can be corrected inline, and missed transitions can be backfilled. The existing Foxglove query syntax works against historical values, so filtering on past state uses the same patterns teams already know. For organizations correlating fleet behavior with configuration changes, this removes the manual reconstruction step that typically follows an unexpected event. Read full details: hubs.ly/Q04gy-zw0 #Robotics #Foxglove #FleetManagement #DataVisualization #PhysicalAI

🚨 Actuate 26 early bird ticket pricing ends in two weeks! ​👉 Get your ticket before the price increase → hubs.ly/Q04gpsT30 Actuate is our annual two-day robotics developer conference. This year we'll bring together 1,000 attendees to experience a full lineup of technical presentations, industry leader keynotes, and a 15,000 square foot exhibition hall. It's a chance for builders to learn about the latest breakthroughs and technology shaping the future of physical AI directly from the leading companies in the space. This year's early speaker lineup is already top notch! @chris_urmson (Co-Founder & CEO, @aurora_inno) @alexgkendall (Co-Founder & CEO, @wayve_ai) @chichengcc (Co-Founder & CTO, @sundayrobotics) @keenanwyrobek (Co-Founder & CTO, @zipline) @JasonMa2020 (Co-Founder, @DynaRobotics) ​and many more! ​We'll be announcing the full schedule and speaker lineup next month, however, early bird tickets ($199 Expo Pass/$649 Full Access Pass) end in 2 weeks. Make sure to grab yours now before the prices increase! 🤖 #Actuate26 📆​ August 18–19, 2026 📍 Fort Mason | San Francisco

Foxglove is heading to Boston for @Robotics_Summit on May 27th & 28th! We're hosting an invite-only happy hour walking distance from the conference. If you're interested in joining, RSVP here: luma.com/1c653iut If you're building in the robotics, stop by to connect with fellow builders, swap ideas, and enjoy a drink. 📍 #RoboticsSummit & Expo | Boston, MA

Actuate Speaker Highlight: Nathan Michael Nathan is Shield AI's Chief Technology Officer and Head of the Hivemind Business Unit. He leads the development and deployment of Hivemind, Shield AI's modular, platform-agnostic mission autonomy software that enables Shield AI and its partners to rapidly develop, test, and field autonomy at scale. Mark you calendars for #Actuate26! 📆 August 18th & 19th in San Francisco. 📍 Fort Mason | San Francisco → Tickets available: hubs.li/Q0499pCy0