Webots Newsletter [October 2004]

o Free RoboNexus passes available from Cyberbotics

If you happen to come to the RoboNexus conference, Cyberbotics
will be please to offer you a limited number of free passes to
attend the conferences. We currently have one full conference and
expo pass (value of $595) and 5 expo-only passes (value of $20).
Please ask me to get these passes. http://www.robonexus.com

o IRC Conference in Andong, South Korea

Cyberbotics will make demos of the latest Webots technologies
at the Korea Intelligent Robot Contest to be held in Andong,
South Korea, from October, 7th to October, 10th 2004, that
is next week. We will demonstrate Aibo ERS-210 and ERS-7
support in Webots among other things.
http://irc.postech.ac.kr (Korean only)

o Two new Webots sites online

Modular Walkers: Self-Organization of Locomotion in Modular
Robots, by Yvan Bourquin, EPFL, CH:
http://www.yvanbourquin.com/ModularWalkers

Biped Humanoid Locomotion: Developing controllers for biped
humanoid locomotion with ZMP, by Yariv Bachar, Edingburg
University, UK.
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/svijayak/SLMCstudprojects/MSc2004/YarivBachar.html

o Webots 5 development underway

We currently developing the new major release of Webots
code named Webots 5 ;). Webots 5 will feature an IDE-like
graphical user interface with built-in text editor and
compiler. Moreovoer, it will include an extended support
for the Aibo ERS-7 and ERS-210 robots by Sony. Rather than
introducing drastically new features, we are working on
improving usability and reliability.

Best regards,

-Olivier

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