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We have some exciting product updates to help you navigate and organize your robotics data – including new extension types and data tagging strategies!

We're also spotlighting another team that's adopted Foxglove to better understand their data. With their integration, Tangram Vision has become a shining example of how Foxglove's observability platform can help teams get to market faster.

💜 Tangram Vision + Foxglove

By adopting Foxglove and the MCAP file format, Tangram Vision was able to slash their customer onboarding workflows from months to days.

Tangram helps robotics teams with sensor-enabled products scale their perception stack – from one proof-of-concept robot to an entire fleet.

Over the last year, Tangram began to realize that it was taking too long to get their software up and running at customer sites. The team lacked a unified solution for robotics observability, which introduced developer friction and slowed down analysis workflows.

Check out the full case study on the Foxglove blog.

🎭 Topic alias extensions

With Foxglove Studio's topic alias extensions, you can now programmatically rename topics to better manage, navigate, and analyze complex datasets.

Check out our docs for more information on how to take full advantage of this new extension type.

🏷️ Custom properties for devices

You can now use custom properties to add metadata to devices.

With custom properties, you can now better organize, search, and filter your team’s data – even as your team and fleet scale. Read the full announcement, or check out the documentation to get started.

💡 Spotlight: Ruffin White on using web technologies to make robotics more accessible

As a multidisciplinary field, robotics is notoriously difficult to break into as a newcomer.

But Ruffin White – PhD researcher and advocate for repeatable, reproducible robotics research – is working to change all that. As a research fellow at the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Ruffin has long been interested in breaking down the barriers between research and industry.

For his latest project, Ruffin is focused on creating technical infrastructure to help new robotics students spend more time learning, versus fighting their development setup.

By helping lower the barrier to entry, Ruffin hopes that more people – even those without any prior experience or access to fancy hardware – can get involved in the field. Read the full interview on the Foxglove blog.

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