Hands-On ROS for Robotics Programming

This book along with the development kit it uses is a very powerful tool to learn ROS. Although ROS is very vast in itself, this book covers most of the basics, commands, tools like simulators and visualizers and has added links to dive deeper. As far as robotics programming is concerned, it starts from learning about sensors, communications, and then gradually proceeds to use the ROS navigation stack, SLAM and reinforcement learning to give the robot an intelligent behavior. Briefly touches on machine learning and computer vision as well. Would recommend for anyone who wants to learn ROS with an actual hardware setup

It's unfortunate that a book written last year is already out of date. It's a major rev down on Ubuntu, which I could live with, but it uses ROS instead of ROS2. ROS2 is the future and was out at the time of publication, and should have had all the necessary packages. The choice to go with ROS definitely limits the lifespan of the text. I was hoping the GitHub might have code for both, but no such luck.