Webots Newsletter [Q1 2005]

o Webots 5.0.1 is there!

This is the first official version of Webots 5, which
includes shadows, built-in IDE for compiling controllers,
Aibo ERS-7 support, saving of the sizes and positions
of windows, and several bug fixes and minor improvements.
You can download it from
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

o HOAP-2 humanoid robot simulation

Pascal Cominoli developed a very precise humanoid robot
model in Webots corresponding to the HOAP-2 robot
distributed by Fujitsu, Japan. The simulated model has
a correct weight distribution, so that the same command
sequences results in the same movement on both the real
robot and its simulated model. He has also nice movies:
http://birg.epfl.ch/page54249.html

o Roboka finals to be held during Eurobot 2005

The competition started May 16th, 2004 and runs online
until May 9th, 2005. The competitors ranked #1 to #4
after the last round will be invited to the final
competition help during the Swiss Robotics Days in
Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland, on May 21st 2005.
It's not too late to enter the contest. We currently
have 33 teams in the hall of fame.
http://roboka.org

o New cool Webots simulation movies

A couple of new movies hit our web site recently:
first, an impressive multi-robot soccer simulation by
Mahdi Asadpour, Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
Second, a Khepera 2 robot taking the lift up, by
Nicolas Lorant from the University of south Bretagne,
France. Both movies are online at the bottom of the
http://www.cyberbotics.com main page.

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