Webots Newsletter [October 2005]

Webots 5.0.8 released

This new version of Webots fixes a large number of little bugs, compilation issues under Windows, and introduces a new panel with tabs for the Aibo robots. The complete change log is available here:
http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/cdrom/common/doc/webots/ChangeLog.html
The download page is at the usual place:
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

Webots bug report form online

We set up an online form to ease bug reports and make them more efficient. If you are using Webots and find some bug, please use our new bug report form. The URL is http://cyberboticspc1.epfl.ch/bug/, but it is also available from our Webots download page, so that you don't have to remember the above URL:
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

URBI for Webots distributed as an optional package for Linux

The Universal Robotic Body Interface (URBI) interface to Webots is now distributed as an optional tarball package for Linux. It now works with the demo version of Webots as well. You can download it from
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

Paper on simulation of the Robocup middle size league

An interesting paper by Mansour Jamzad and Mahdi Asadpour entitled "Introducing Simulation Middle Size: a new soccer league to RoboCup" has been published in the Proceeding of the first international Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotics Systems (MARS 2005). The paper, descriptions and movies can downloaded from:
http://ce.sharif.edu/~asadpur/robocup.html

-Olivier Michel

Cyberbotics Ltd.

http://www.cyberbotics.com