Mapping with a Robotic Quadruped
SLAM navigation and real-time mapping, running live on a quadruped robot platform.
A major 5G infrastructure vendor looking to showcase their connectivity solutions for robotics applications needed a compelling way to demonstrate autonomous navigation and mapping capabilities to stakeholders and decision-makers. The goal was to provide a live, interactive demonstration that made the technology tangible, deploying a production-grade robotics stack on a commercial quadruped and giving non-technical audiences a way to interact with it directly, without hiding what the technology was actually doing. The demo also needed to be reliable enough to run in a live lab setting, in front of an audience.
A tech company needed a live, interactive robotics demo to make autonomous navigation tangible for stakeholders.
What We Built
Impact
Stakeholders experienced autonomous navigation firsthand, turning an abstract technology proposition into a tangible demo that drove real engagement.
Production-Grade Autonomy Stack
ROS 2 Jazzy, RTAB-Map SLAM, and the Nav2 navigation stack ran fully containerized on the robot's onboard compute, delivering a reliable, self-contained system capable of operating live in front of an audience.
Simulation-to-Reality in One Codebase
A single codebase supported both Gazebo simulation and real-robot deployment, allowing the team to develop and validate behaviors in simulation before switching to live hardware without any reconfiguration.
Interactive Control for Non-Technical Audiences
A Foxglove Studio interface let participants send click-to-goal commands, reset the map, and trigger recovery behaviors in real time, making autonomous navigation something anyone in the room could directly engage with.
A live demo that closed the gap between technical capability and business understanding, making quadruped autonomy tangible for the people who need to act on it.
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