Unable to launch Fetch simulation in Gazebo 7 - ROS Kinetic

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Hello,

I recently found an updated GitHub repository for the Fetch simulation on Gazebo here https://github.com/fetchrobotics/fetc...

The release notes mention that this repository is now compatible with ROS Kinetic and more recent ROS versions as well. However, when I downloaded this package and tried to launch the Gazebo simulation (after placing it within my Catkin work space and rebuilding it with catkin_make), it terminates by showing me an error stating its unable to find the robot description.

Here's the entire sequence right from roslaunch

saai@ubuntu:~/catkin_ws$ roslaunch fetch_gazebo simulation.launch
... logging to /home/saai/.ros/log/5e6221a2-d746-11e8-a3d4-000c29ebafb8/roslaunch-ubuntu-3845.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.
xacro: Traditional processing is deprecated. Switch to --inorder processing!
To check for compatibility of your document, use option --check-order.
For more infos, see http://wiki.ros.org/xacro#Processing_Order
resource not found: fetch_description
ROS path [0]=/opt/ros/kinetic/share/ros
ROS path [1]=/home/saai/catkin_ws/src
ROS path [2]=/opt/ros/kinetic/share None
when processing file: /home/saai/catkin_ws/src/fetch_gazebo/robots/fetch.gazebo.xacro
while processing /home/saai/catkin_ws/src/fetch_gazebo/launch/include/fetch.launch.xml:
Invalid <param> tag: Cannot load command parameter [robot_description]: command 
[/opt/ros/kinetic/share/xacro/xacro.py /home/saai/catkin_ws/src/fetch_gazebo/robots/fetch.gazebo.xacro] returned with code [2].

Param xml is <param command="$(find xacro)/xacro.py $(find fetch_gazebo)/robots/fetch.gazebo.xacro" name="robot_description"/>

The traceback for the exception was written to the log file

saai@ubuntu:~/catkin_ws$

I'm using ROS Kinetic on a virtual machine running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Gazebo 7, and I'm able to successfully run the Turtlebot simulation in Gazebo 7 with no issues. My issue is just with the Fetch package.

As I'm new to ROS I'm unable to understand what to do next. Would really appreciate some guidance in this regard.

Thanks in advance!