Foxglove CEO Adrian Macneil Examines Visualization and Debugging Tools for Robotics

Welcome to Episode 68 of The Robot Report Podcast, where each week Robot Report editor Steve Crowe and Mobile Robot Guide editor Mike Oitzman review the latest robotics, automation and intelligent systems news and announcements, and interview leading roboticists, leaders of innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community.

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In Episode 68 of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman interview Adrian Macneil, co-founder and CEO of Foxglove, a start-up offering open source visualization and debugging tool for robotics. He discusses the company’s spin-out from autonomous driving company Cruise, how its solutions differ from RViz, challenges of robotics development and the keys to running his startup. Foxglove recently raised $3.7 million in Seed funding.

Crowe and Oitzman also discuss some of the more interesting new stories that occured prior to recording the podcast. That includes how robots helped build the James Webb telescope, an improved Pepper humanoid that never came to light, and the potential fallout of the $40 billion deal between NVIDIA and Arm.

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