I always assumed ROS 2.0 was going to be a lot faster, and they would call that Hare. :) 2011/2/22 Gonçalo Cabrita > 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 >> >> -- >> Arkapravo Bhaumik >> E-mail : arkapravobhaumik@gmail.com >> Blogs : http://mobotica.blogspot.com/, http://3chevrons.blogspot.com/ >> Twitter : @abhaumik >> Skype : arkapravo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >