[Robotics] MORSE 0.2 released

[Séverin Lemaignan]

We are glad to announce the official release of the BSD-licensed Modular 
Open Robot Simulation Engine (MORSE) 0.2, codenamed "the Human-Robot 
Interaction release".

6 months of work, more than 600 commits and over 7500 lines of code (and 
a fair amount of time spend building models in Blender) for this new 
release!

Amongst the highlights:
- full support for Blender 2.5+/python3.1,
- a new "immersive" mode to control a human in the simulation,
- support for Kuka LWR and PA-10 arms,
- new sensors and actuators, including SICK laser scanner and a new high 
level "semantic camera", which leads to more than 10 classes of 
available robotic sensors, 8 classes of actuators and 3 complete robotic 
platforms,
- a new homepage (http://morse.openrobots.org) and a completely revamped 
documentation, available here:

           http://www.openrobots.org/morse/doc

- a fresh morse-users at laas.fr mailing-list for community support and 
discussions,
- and of course, tons of bug fixes (nasty nasty 3D transformations!)

The complete changelog is online here [1].
The source is available from GitHub: https://github.com/laas/morse

Now, lets head to the exciting release 0.3 (it may well feature ROS and 
PR2 support...who knows... :-) )

Happy simulation!
Séverin, for the MORSE team

[1] https://github.com/laas/morse/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES

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