Probably as a tribute to William Grey Walter's Elmer and Elsie? They were
the first mobile robots ever created and they did look like turtles :) In
fact they referred to them as turtles:

http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/Robots/gwonline/gwonline.html

Just a guess!

Gonçalo Cabrita

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Arkapravo Bhaumik <
arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I am not sure if it an appropriate question, may be on the lighter side.
>
> Why is there a tortoise reference in ROS (Box Turtle, C Turtle and Diamond
> Back) ? Is there a tale to it ? :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Arkapravo
>
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