Last week, we had a pre-Fourth of July BBQ! We were joined by about a hundred local robot aficionados in celebrating a number of exciting milestones. The tasty BBQ fare arrived in the form of a food truck.

We were a little late in throwing an office-warming party, so instead we decided to celebrate our one-year anniversary in the building, along with our 1+ year existence as a company. We were also very excited to celebrate the successful completion of the Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC).

Partygoers were treated to VRC highlight videos, the opportunity to try some VRC tasks, and ROS/Gazebo/MoveIt! demonstrations with our recently received Baxter Research Robot (thanks, Rethink!).

Dave was especially excited to get the Baxter demos working.