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There are several possible reasons for this issue: 1. As v4hn pointed out, there might be no publisher populating the /joint_states topic. 2. As reported here, MoveIt might be too busy (e.g. processing perception data) to actually process the joint_states topic. 3. You are using MoveIt < Kinetic and some joints of your robot are never published on joint_states.

There are several possible reasons for this issue: 1. issue:

1. As v4hn pointed out, there might be no publisher populating the /joint_states topic. 2. topic.
2. As reported here, MoveIt might be too busy (e.g. processing perception data) to actually process the joint_states topic. 3. topic.
3. You are using MoveIt < Kinetic and some joints of your robot are never published on joint_states.

There are several possible reasons for this issue:

1. As v4hn pointed out, there might be no publisher populating the /joint_states topic.
2. As reported here, MoveIt might be too busy (e.g. processing perception data) to actually process the joint_states topic.
3. You are using MoveIt < Kinetic and some joints of your robot are never published on joint_states.joint_states. MoveIt maintainers are preparing a fix for this.