Webots Newsletter May 2003

o Webots 4.0.0 released!

The final version of Webots 4.0.0 has just been released
yesterday! This major release introduces the simulation of physics
enabling any custom robot to be modelled and simulated including
wheeled, legged or flying robots. Moreover, many improvements were
included, like the cross-compilation for the LEGO Mindstorms robot,
a better support for the Khepera robot. Webots 4 runs on Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X. If you are currently using Webots 3, it is now
recommanded to upgrade to Webots 4. More info about Webots 4 is
available from http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/products/webots/


o How to upgrade to Webots 4 ?

If you want to upgrade to Webots 4 now, three cases are possible:
(1) If you purchased Webots 3 less than one year ago, you can
upgrade for free to Webot 4. Just fill our online form from the
help -> register menu of Webots 4 using the serial number of your
copy of Webots 3 and you will receive a license file for Webots 4.
(2) If you purchased Webots 3 (or an upgrade to Webots 3) more
than one year ago, you have to purchase an upgrade for half of the
current price of Webots 4 (see check box in the online shop).
(3) In any other case, you have to purchase a normal version.
All details are available from our online shop:
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/order.html


o ALife Contest: and the winner is...

Petr Stepan from Czech Technical University won the Khepera II
robot and the Webots PRO package with his Piglet robot.
Congratulation! The last days of the competition were really
disputed and the victory wasn't decided between Piglet and
LostInSpace until the last match of the last round. Many thanks
to all the competitors for their great work! More information,
including an interview of the winner and a nice picture of him
are available on http://www.cyberbotics.com/contest


o Support for Hemisson cross-compilation in Webots 4

If you have a Hemisson robot and the CCS C compiler for PIC,
you can cross-compile Webots controllers for the Hemisson
robot and upload them directly to your Hemisson robot with
Hemisson Uploader. This is feature is available in Webots 4
STD, EDU and PRO. All the necessary files for performing this
cross-compilation are to be included in the upcoming
HemiOS-1.35 to be available from
http://www.hemisson.com/English/support.html



Best regards,

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