Webots Newsletter April 2003

o Webots 4 beta 3 available for download

A third public beta version of Webots 4 is available for
download. This new version runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Many bugs have been fixed since beta 2. The documentation was
also improved. New features and new robot models were introduced
(LEGO RCX with Java cross-compilation capability, Aibo model,
and a simple biped robot). You can register this copy of Webots
from the help menu to start using it in your projects right now!
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/products/webots/webots4_popup.html

o Webots classroom material online

Jean-Chritophe Zufferey, one of the earliest beta tester of Webots
4, developed a nice Laboratory Material based on Webots 4 entitled
"Bio-inspired Adaptive Machines" at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). It contains comprehensive
installation instructions (for Windows), an overview of the project
with a nice MPEG movie of the Khepera robot, and five
mini-project descriptions in PDF files.
http://asl.epfl.ch/education/courses/BioinspiredAdaptiveMachines/zufferey

o ALife Contest: a few days from the end!

We have now 45 competitors engaged in the contest, the
competition, especially in the top 10 best robots is really
getting hot. Wilmot (Sweden) still holds the first rank but
LostInSpace (France) performed yesterday a spectacular +3
progress, reaching rank 2! It's not too late to enter the
contest, but I'd recommand you to hurry up if you planned to
win the Khepera II robot and Webots PRO package!
More information on http://www.cyberbotics.com/contest

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-Olivier Michel
http://www.cyberbotics.com
Phone/Fax: +41 21 693 8624