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Most of the existing teleop nodes don't publish key events; they interpret the keybaord events and publish some sort of command - usually velocity commands for moving a mobile base.

If you want to add keyboard support for an existing program, you'll probably have to do it the old-fashioned way - by reading stdin.

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