Dear MoveIt! and ROS users,

The MoveIt! development team would like to wish you a very happy new year and bring new tidings. We have:

(1) A MoveIt! 2013 Montage Movie: (http://youtu.be/dblCGZzeUqs)

(2) A new website: (http://moveit.ros.org)

We have listened to your feedback and added:

• MoveIt! Blog - we will highlight features, apps, robots and demos here (so please send them in regularly)
  
• New documentation
• New tutorials - sphinx-based living next to the code so they are easier to maintain
• Robots using MoveIt! page
  
• FAQs page - where we will collect the most frequently asked questions (and answers)
• Status page highlighting the status of different components in MoveIt!
  

The old wiki is still available at moveit.ros.org/wiki but will be deprecated soon.

We are also inviting members of the community to sign up as official maintainers of the MoveIt! packages and associated interfaces for different robots so that we can get stable MoveIt! interfaces to a wide variety of robots. 

Please let us know any feedback you might have.

Best Regards,

Sachin Chitta

Associate Director

Robotics Systems and Software

SRI International