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+# barrett-ros-pkg
+> ROS package for the Barrett WAM and related products.
+
+## Overview
+This is Barrett Technology's ROS repository wrapping Libbarrett's functionalities.  Libbarrett is a real-time controls library written in C++ that runs Barrett Technology's products, including the WAM Arm and the BH8-282 BarrettHand.
+
+### Pre-Requisites
+This ROS repository requires:
+- An installed version of Libbarrett. To check out the latest version of Libbarrett: https://git.barrett.com/software/libbarrett
+- [ROS Indigo] on Ubuntu 14.04 (http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu).
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-barrett-ros-pkg -- README
-Barrett Technology Inc.
-2012-05-11
-
-Barrett Technology's ROS repository is an abstraction of Libbarrett.  Libbarrett
-is a real-time controls library written in C++ that runs Barrett Technology's 
-products, including the WAM Arm and the BH8-280 BarrettHand.
-
-Our ROS repository requires an installed version of Libbarrett.  To check out 
-the latest version of Libbarrett:
-
-svn http://web.barrett.com/svn/libbarrett/tags/libbarrett-1.0.0
-
-Please view the README.txt file within Libbarrett for installation instructions.
-
-The wam_robot stack is designed to be run on a WAM PC-104 or external control 
-PC.  
-
-The wam_common stack is designed as the interface to communicate with the 
-functionality exposed by the wam_node.
-
-The wam_sim stack is in development and should be released shortly.
-
-Please contact us with any functionality or feature requests.  We appreciate 
-contributions and collaborations.
-
-Libbarrett is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
-modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
-Free Software Foundation.
-
-Contact us at:
-support@barrett.com
-http://www.barrett.com/
-+1-617-252-9000
-
-Barrett Technology
-625 Mount Auburn Street
-Cambridge, MA 02138
-USA