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It's missing a tf prefix. The frame id laser could be resolved to /laser (a "world-wide" frame id) or /robot_a/laser (a robot-specific frame id).

If there is not tf prefix (i.e. you are not doing multirobot stuff) resolving laser to /laser is fine and shouldn't give you any problems.

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