Hi John,

sorry for hijacking the thread, but will there/is already a
continuation of the following tutorial in sense that robot also grasps
the object:
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/simulator_gazebo/Tutorials/ManipulatingObjectsInTheWorld

D.
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