# Platform roundup: November 2025

November's updates span the full development lifecycle—from shipping your code to monitoring your fleet.

### Multi-machine fleet dashboards

Monitor your entire fleet from a single dashboard. Set up widgets to pull data from multiple machines, visualize trends across your fleet, and filter for specific machines or time ranges. Expanding on teleop's single-machine view, dashboards let you monitor every robot simultaneously—including spotting outliers, tracking fleet health, and identifying trends without switching between machines.

*Temperature monitoring dashboard widget showing two sensor readings over time.*

*Dashboard GPS widget showing machine locations on a map view.*

### Simplified resource names in motion APIs

Motion APIs now accept simple names instead of complex identifiers. Where you previously had to specify `"rdk:component:arm/foo"` to control a robot arm, you can now just use `"fooArm"`. The system automatically handles name conflicts and lets you add prefixes like `"robot2.fooArm"` when controlling multiple robots. Note: Update both SDK and viam-server, then switch your code to the new naming format.

### 10x faster C++ builds with Conan server

C++ build times just dropped from an hour to under 10 minutes. We set up a Conan server that caches prebuilt SDK dependencies so you don’t have to rebuild the same libraries every time. Add the remote with `conan remote add viamconan` and your builds automatically use the cached dependencies. Especially useful if long C++ build times have been blocking your module development.

November brought more platform improvements designed to streamline your robotics development. Questions or feedback? Drop by our [Discord](https://discord.gg/4Kk87b3Y) to let us know what friction points we should tackle next.