Webots Newsletter November 2002

o New version of Webots 3.2.17 to be released today

This new version fixes a small number of bugs (including
pen_set_ink_color).
Version 3.2.16 (not publicly released) introduced a GPS device
allowing the
robot to know its absolute position. It is now available in 3.2.17.
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html

o 13 competitors in the ALife contest

The hall of fame of the ALife contest displays now 13 competitors from
various countries. The round supervisor changed a little bit and pick up
random worlds for each match. Matches are played every day at 5 o'clock
(GMT+1) and are visible from our web cam.
http://www.cyberbotics.com/contest/

o Webots 4 development status

We are actively developing Webots 4. Our first beta version already runs
under Linux. Portings to Windows and Mac OSX are in the pipe as well. The
first beta version to be released will be Webots 4.0beta1 for Linux,
Windows
and Mac OSX and will be very similar to Webots 3.2.17. Webots 4.0beta2
will
introduce physics features demonstrated in a robotics soccer game.

--
-Olivier Michel
http://www.cyberbotics.com