Webots Newsletter December 2002


o Cyberbotics online store

Cyberbotics just opened an online store in which you can
purchase different mobile robots and accessories, including
Khepera II, Koala and Hemisson, and of course the Webots
packages: Webots PRO, Webots EDU and Webots STD. A
special discount applies if you order both a Khepera II robot
and a Webots package. Payment methods include online
credit card processing and bank wire tranfers.
See http://www.cyberbotics.com/order.html


o Hemisson robot available on store

The new robot from K-Team, Hemisson, is available for
sale from our online store. Hemisson is a cost effective
(CHF 350 ~= USD/EUR 240) mobile robot for edutation.
You can program it visually to do many things, including
line following, wall following, obstacle avoidance, dance,
drawings with a pen, sounds, LED blinking, etc... Software
available for both Linux and Windows.
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/robots/hemisson.html


o ALife Contest getting hot!

We have now 18 competitors engaged in the contest,
controllers are updated frequently and the hall of fame is
evolving smoothly. Glutton is still number one, but
Richeboeuf, SnowMan, LuBot and Piglet are very active,
just behind him... Will they let Glutton hold the Khepera II
robot and a Webots PRO price ? More information on
http://www.cyberbotics.com/contest


o Webots 3.2.18 is available.

This new release fixes a number of small bugs and improves
the documentation.
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html


o Webots CD-ROM ISO images online

You can now burn your own Webots CD-ROM yourself by
downloading the new ISO image of Webots 3.2.18 from our
web site: http://www.cyberbotics.com/iso


o Webots 4 beta release schedule

We plan to release Webots 4.0.beta1 for Linux, Windows
and Mac OSX before the end of this month. Stay tuned on
the download page to get the new betas as they come out:
http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html


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