Webots Newsletter [June 2004]

o Cyberbotics at RoboCup 2004 & IAV 2004

Cyberbotics will have a booth at both the RoboCup 2004 Symposium
and the Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2004) conference.
We will demonstrate Webots and show some of the new and upcoming
features. If you happen to be there, you are welcome to visit us.

o Webots 4.0.24 released

This new version of Webots introduce a few bug fixes and improvements
over Webots 4.0.23. You can download it from the usual place:
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

o Humanoid Robot Judo Contest Winners Announced

The winner are Anders Lyhagen and Johan Larsson from Malm<F6>, Sweden.
They developed Bob: a robot walkig on the knee (a bit similar to
many RoboCup Aibo robot gaits, but on two legs). They also used a
gentic algorithm (GA) to optimize the behavior of their robot. They
received a Webots PRO pack and a Hemisson robot. Congratulation!
Congratulation also to the other 50 teams involved in this contest
who developed great humanoid robot controllers!

o Roboka contest started!

This new contest is based on the previous Humanoid Robot Judo
Contest which ended recently. There is currently 8 competitors in
the hall of fame and the first matches look promising. The web
site was redesigned and we are going to keep improving this contest
gradually. Have a look at it at http://roboka.org

o Summer holidays

Following the RoboCup 2004 symposium and IAV 2004 conference
in Lisbon, Cyberbotics will close its offices until the end of July.
Please wait for the beginning of August to contact us with any matter.

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