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Webots™ Newsletter
News for the Webots™ user community.

December 2006

The Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium is getting bigger

Bob II: training for Roboka contest

Founded end of 2004 by four companies from the Lake Geneva area (BlueBotics, Cyberbotics, FiveCo and K-Team), the Swiss Mobile Robotics Consortium is adding Neuronics (Zürich) and GCtronic (Mendrisio) to its membership, thus now representing all Swiss linguistic regions. Its members, offer innovative and complementary competences and technologies to meet the market requirements of any size and complexity.

We recently found on YouTube a very entertaining movie made with Webots (turn on the sound). From the description: "A little story about BobII (bob the second). A virtual robot who fought in the roboka competition 2004 and 2005, and won both :).. This video shows his very hard time in our genetic algorithms trying to learn how to walk and fight like a true robot killing machine..."

Hoap-2 robot playing the drums

High level activity control on Aibo / URBI / Webots

Sarah Dégallier, Cristina P. Santos, Ludovic Righetti and Auke-Jan Ijspeert published a paper entitled "Movement generation using dynamical systems: a humanoid robot performing a drumming task" at the Humanoids 2006 conference along with interesting videos where a real and a simulated HOAP-2 robot are playing the drums using a superposition, and switch between, discrete and dynamic rhythmic movements.

Dane Alexander from AIAI at Edinburgh university developed a Webots simulation of Aibo using the URBI programming language that allows for a high level activity control of the robot. This master thesis is publicly available on the web, including the Webots files. This is illustrated with a simulated Aibo robot navigating from one zone to another in a generic office environment, with zones representing rooms and open spaces.

Webots 5.1.11 available for download

Season's greetings & Christmas holidays

A new release of Webots is available for download on our web site. This new version introduces the BotStudio graphical programming environment for the e-puck robot. Moreover, the EDU and STD versions are not any more limited to a single platform, but will work on any Windows, Linux or Mac OS machine. Finally, several bugs have been fixed, the complete change log is available here.

Cyberbotics' team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 2006 was a great year for Cyberbotics with increasing sales of Webots, e-puck robot and start of a European research project. In 2007, we will be even more commited to continue the development of Webots and to support the growing community of users.
Please note that our offices will be closed from December 23rd, 2006 to January 3rd, 2007.

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