Webots Newsletter [July 2005]

Webots 5.0.6 released

This new release of Webots fixes a number of issues and
adds a few new extra features. It is recommended to
upgrade if you are using a previous version of Webots 5.
You can download this new version from our web site:
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

Summer holidays

Our offices will be closed from July 15th to July 27th and
from August 1st to August 4th.

Laser scanner simulation with Webots

Stefan Gaechter and Christian Berclaz (EPFL-ASL) developed
some sensor models of laser scanners for Webots. They
approximate the SICK laser scanner, which is widely used in
the field of mobile robotics. Three models are available:
3D laser scanner, 2D laser scanner with resampling and 3D
laser scanner with resampling.
http://asl.epfl.ch/~gachter/Projects/Students/Range%20Image%20Simulation/Web

Cyberbotics to sponsor ECMR05 conference

The second European Conference on Mobile Robots will be
held in Ancona, Italy on September 7-10, 2005. 40 scientific
papers will be presented during this conference, mostly from
European researchers: http://ecmr05.univpm.it/
Our ECMR05 flyer:
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/flyers/ECMR05.pdf

Cyberbotics to sponsor IROS 2005 conference

Cyberbotics will offer US$500 and a Webots PRO pack to
award the best experimental robotics paper of the
conference. This new award called the "IROS Cyberbotics
Award for Experimental Robotics" will be decerned during
the conference banquet on August 4th, 2005.
http://www.iros2005.org/
Our IROS 2005 flyer:
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/flyers/IROS2005.pdf

Best regards,

-Olivier