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microsoft / spot-ros-wrapper

ROS Wrapper for the Boston Dynamics Spot robot
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How to visualize the Robot model in Rviz? #7

Closed arjunskumar closed 3 years ago

arjunskumar commented 3 years ago

Couldn't find URDF descriptions files in the packages.

helenol commented 3 years ago

Hi @arjunskumar, we're currently working with BD to make sure we can include the spot URDFs in our repo. :) We'll keep you updated on when this happens.

arjunskumar commented 3 years ago

Thanks @helenol

mklingen-bd commented 3 years ago

@helenol @arjunskumar our API provides a URDF via the Skeleton message within robot state. The intention was for API users to dynamically download the URDF from the robot and display it that way -- but this is probably much more difficult to achieve in ROS than a static spot_description package containing a copy of the URDF.

arjunskumar commented 3 years ago

@mklingen-bd Yes you're right.