# Washington Post re Ghost Robotics AGX ROS2

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/washington-post-re-ghost-robotics-agx-ros2/17795>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** ros2, eloquent, cyclonedds, jetson\
**Created:** [December 8, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/washington-post-re-ghost-robotics-agx-ros2/17795 "2020-12-08T10:59:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![joespeed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/joespeed/32/12133_2.png) [@joespeed](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/joespeed)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/washington-post-re-ghost-robotics-agx-ros2/17795/1 "2020-12-08T10:59:48Z")

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[Washington Post article about US Air Force using Ghost Robotics](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/07/robit-dogs-patrol-tyndall/?tid) quadrupeds that run [NVIDIA Xavier AGX](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-agx-xavier/) ros2 eloquent cyclonedds. Part of the impetus for mobile security is because Hurricane Michael destroyed billions of dollars of Tyndall Air Force Base infrastructure including stationary surveillance cameras.

Ghost’s @allenh1 and team won this via an successful pilot where [Ghost V60s were airlifted via 109th Airlift Wing LC-130 (yes, arctic ski plane) from Buckley Air Force Base CO to Nellis Air Force base Nevada](https://www.nellis.af.mil/News/Article/2350071/crw-tests-advanced-battle-management-system-during-agile-combat-employment-exer/) and rapidly deployed. @JWhitleyWork @eboasson @rotu gave an assist.

pro tip: when pondering [ros1\_bridge](https://github.com/ros2/ros1_bridge) vs porting all packages to ros2 … do the later.  
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/07/robit-dogs-patrol-tyndall/?tid](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/07/robit-dogs-patrol-tyndall/?tid)  
[https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/728754872/tyndall-air-force-base-still-faces-challenges-in-recovering-from-hurricane-micha](https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/728754872/tyndall-air-force-base-still-faces-challenges-in-recovering-from-hurricane-micha)

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**Author:** ![allenh1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/allenh1/32/7076_2.png) [@allenh1](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/allenh1)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/washington-post-re-ghost-robotics-agx-ros2/17795/2 "2020-12-08T13:44:33Z")

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Thanks for the post, @joespeed!

CycloneDDS has been fantastic for our use case! And @eboasson has been incredibly helpful with any issues we ran into.

Cheers!