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+# LASR Base
+
+This repository contains all of LASR's ROS packages.
+
+Packages are organised into the following folders:
+
+- **common**: packages used throughout the project
+  - **helpers**: packages which provide Python / ROS helper functions / services
+  - **interfaces**: touch and web interfaces
+  - **navigation**: packages for augmenting / controlling navigation
+  - **speech**: speech recognition, conversation intent recognition, and text-to-speech
+  - **vision**: object recognition
+- **documentation** (package): package containing scripts for generating READMEs and also the documentation site itself
+- **legacy**: packages intended to be removed / rewritten and adapted into the new structure
+- **skills**: commonly used states (for smach) which implement various actions
+- **tasks**: implementations of robot demos / tasks / challenges
+
+## Documentation
+
+Currently to get the documentation up you should be in our container and then run:
+
+```bash
+catkin build documentation
+source devel/setup.bash
+rosrun documentation view.py
+```