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Accelerating robotics development. Co-founder & CEO 🦊 @foxglove, previously @cruise @coinbase 🇺🇸🇳🇿
San Francisco, CA foxglove.dev Joined March 2011
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Adrian Macneil Verified account @adrianmacneil
.@Foxglove is 5 years old today! 🦊🎂

Highlights from the past year:

- Team: 62 (more than double since last year)
- Over 250 customers
- Closed more new business in 2025 than our first 4 years combined
- Hosted ACTUATE 2025 with over 500 attendees (2x bigger than last year)
- Shipped 35 releases with major new features: projects, python notebook integration, data loader extensions, maps in 3d, voxel grids, depth images, audio, custom event types, and more
- Rewrote our SDK for easier integration with Rust, Python, C++, and ROS
- Grew from 12k to 140k lines of Rust in production 🦀
- Raised $40M Series B to accelerate our growth

The industry has changed dramatically since 2021. "Physical AI" went from a term nobody used to a category attracting billions in investment. Robot foundation models are improving at an incredible pace. And building infrastructure to power our customers' data flywheel is more important than ever.

Incredibly proud of the hard work our team put in over this past year, and excited to show you some of the things we're currently cooking.

We're just getting started - it's still Day 1 🚀
Adrian Macneil Verified account @adrianmacneil Feb 3, 2025
. @foxglove is 4 years old today.

- Team: 28 (100% remote)
- 3.5x increase in Daily Active Users
- 4.7x increase in paid users
- 3.1x increase in ARR (mostly inbound)
- Petabytes of data under management
- Trusted by the world's top robotics companies including NVIDIA, OpenAI, Wayve, and Collaborative Robotics
- Our open source MCAP log format is now widely adopted across the industry
- Hosted our first-ever robotics developer conference (Actuate 2024)

Foxglove turbocharges robotics development and debugging—helping customers get to market faster and increase reliability in production.

We’re seeing rapid adoption across warehouse & logistics, autonomous vehicles, humanoids, agriculture, and defense. Basically any autonomous edge device (sensing + actuation) can benefit from Foxglove!

The robotics industry is growing insanely fast, and it’s a great time to be building. I often say that robotics today is like the PC industry in the ’80s—capabilities are advancing rapidly, and we’re less than a decade away from having an intelligent robot in every home and office. Walking, talking robots like R2-D2 and C-3PO used to seem like science fiction, but with recent AI breakthroughs, they’re close to becoming reality.
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Adrian Macneil Verified account @adrianmacneil
This week in Physical AI: Pixel's open mobile manipulator and UMI data stack, Stretch Gen 2, Kodiak's Western Star trucks for Atlas, Panasonic's tactile T-Rex, RoboColosseum, Figure robots walking out of BotQ, Zipline's Walmart drone expansion, and Tutor Intelligence's Series B.
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Adrian Macneil Verified account @adrianmacneil
This is very easy to fix, I have a PR polish prompt I always run before merge.

Things like: remove unnecessary comments, ensure tests are necessary and not duplicative, ensure added/edited code is in the most idiomatic location, ensure public classes/functions are documented.

Much easier to do this stuff in a final polish pass with a cheaper model rather than over optimizing agents.md
Erik Dunteman Verified account @erikdunteman Oct 28
Current agent pet peeve is how tainted the codebase gets with artifacts from the dialogue.

> tell agent to do X
> agent does X, but also does Y
> tell agent I don't want Y
> agent removes Y, but leaves comments everywhere like "X does x; don't worry, we don't do Y"
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