# Stretch Community News - August 2023

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**Created:** [September 9, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/stretch-community-news-august-2023/805 "2023-09-09T00:15:03Z")\
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Hello again and welcome to the Hello Robot monthly community update! This month, we have publications from RO-MAN and PETRA, a new simulation of Stretch, and an update on our ROS 2 development! Read on for details of the great work being done with Stretch last month. If you’d like to see your work featured in a future newsletter or on the [Stretch Community Repo](https://github.com/hello-robot/stretch_community), drop us a line at [community@hello-robot.com](mailto:community@hello-robot.com).

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Take a peek at the new implementation of **Stretch in MuJoCo** , just released on the MuJoCo Menagerie, thanks to work by Kevin Zakka at UC Berkeley. [Learn More](https://github.com/deepmind/mujoco_menagerie/blob/main/hello_robot_stretch/README.md)

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University of Washington researchers developed a **customized web-based interface for remote teleoperation of Stretch** , and asked a group of mobility-impaired users to test its performance. [Learn More](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.02771.pdf)

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**Don’t miss your chance to win a Stretch!** There’s still time to get involved in the HomeRobot **Open Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation challenge.** Challenge entries for Phase 1 must be submitted by October 10, 2023. [Learn More](https://eval.ai/web/challenges/challenge-page/2100/overview)

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Researchers at Northeastern University published an approach for locating and tracking humans based on **combining sound Direction of Arrival with video cues** , finding that incorporating audio signals greatly reduced the time required to search for a person. [Learn More](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3594806.3594845)

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Curious about using **ROS 2 with Stretch**? Hello Robot intern and CMU student Atharva Pusalkar provides an update on the state of Hello Robot’s ROS 2 development including some **newly ported packages like FUNMAP** and several autonomous demos. [Learn More](https://forum.hello-robot.com/t/my-experience-porting-funmap-to-ros-2/799)

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**Want to see your work showcased in the next Community Newsletter? Share it with us at** [**community@hello-robot.com**](mailto:community@hello-robot.com) **!**