Last week, Hugo, Ian, Tully, and Brian were in Washington, DC for the first National Robotics Initiative meeting. In addition to presenting a poster, we taught a 2-hour tutorial using our latest web-based tools for managing and interacting with cloud-hosted simulations.

A couple of tutorial participants were even using Gazebo from their mobile devices:

It was great to see so many people from the US robotics community together in one place. One odd thing about the meeting was that, as it was held on the first two days of the new fiscal year, the federal government shutdown prevented any of the government folks from attending. It must be frustrating to organize such an event and then be told that you can’t go.