Webots Newsletter [July 2003]

o Robot Judo Contest starting!
o Webots 4.0.9 released
o Webots PRO comes with free laptop license
o Humanoid walk
o Summer Vacation

o Robot Judo Contest starting!

Our new programming contest just started. You can download the new version
of Webots and start programming your own humanoid judoka robot. The
evaluation version of Webots allows anyone to engage the contest free of
charge, using the judo.wbt world. Official matches will begin by the end of
August. More information about this contest is available at
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/contest/index.html

o Webots 4.0.9 released

Webots 4 is continuously being developed. Version 4.0.9, available for
download at http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html
adds significant improvements, including bug fixes, new BotStudio graphical
programming system for the Hemisson robot, new Judo contest world, etc.
The complete ChangeLog is available at
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/cdrom/common/doc/webots/ChangeLog.html

o Webots PRO comes with free laptop license

Due to several customer requests, we decided to offer a free laptop
license for every Webots 4 registered customers. If you are a Webots 4
registered customer and would like to be able to run Webots 4 on your
laptop as well, just send us an e-mail with your laptop brand, model and
serial number and register a new license file for your laptop from the
Help Register menu of Webots 4.

o Humanoid walk

Stéphane Mojon developed a nice humanoid simulation using Webots 4. His
humanoid robot learns a biped walking gait using a genetically evolved
controller driving a humanoid robot. Stéphane will be continuing his
promising developments over the next semester, along with other students.
http://lslwww.epfl.ch/birg/PROJECTS/stephane_mojon/projet.shtml

o Summer Vacation

Our offices will be closed from August 1st (tomorrow) to August 17th. We
will be unable to reply to our e-mails or phone calls during that period
of time. Please be patient, we will be back!



Best regards,

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