TRI adds HSR support to Cartographer

In support of Google’s release of Cartographer, the real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) library, Toyota Research Institute (TRI) has contributed a ROS package for Toyota’s Human Support Robot (HSR). “Cartographer brings us one step closer to my dream of apt-get install SLAM, in which roboticists can easily harness all the community’s progress on mapping and localization achieved over the past two decades,” said Dr. John J. Le