Webots Webots™ Newsletter
News for the Webots™ user community.		 September 2006 
Cyberbotics sponsoring SAB'06 conference e-puck robots on sale at Cyberbotics
Katana robot Cyberbotics is sponsoring the SAB'06 conference by offering a Webots package as the Best Poster Award of the conference. We will be in Rome from September 25th to September 29th, demonstrating Webots with e-puck robots and making some announcements.

e-puck robot e-puck is an affordable mini robot developed at EPFL and now available from Cyberbotics. It is fully integrated in Webots and offers a wide range of features (Bluetooth, color camera, speaker, 8 infra-red sensors, 3D accelerometer, 3 microphones, 2 stepper motors, 10 LEDs, etc.) 
Webots 5.1.9 released HOAP-2 learning from experience
Webots This new version of Webots fixes several bugs, adds many small improvements and improves the documentation and examples (including the Katana arm and the Shrimp robot). You can download it from http://www.cyberbotics.com/products/webots/download.html. The ChangeLog is available here.

HOAP-2 simualtion The Neural System Group at Washington University developed a new method for robotic imitation of human motion based purely on learning from experience and observation. Interesting results are demonstrated in a Webots simulation and transfered on the real HOAP-2 humanoid robot. They presented a paper at ICRA 2006.

Cyberbotics finalist of the IFR/IEEE Invention & Entrepreneurship Award Cyberbotics to demonstrate Webots at IROS 2006
IEEE Cyberbotics has been selected as one of the three finalists for the IEEE/IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Award. A presentation will be given at IROS 2006, Beijing, on October 11th in the morning. The winner will be announced at the luncheon that day.

IROS 2006 Cyberbotics will have a booth at IROS 2006, Beijing, from October 11th to October 15th. We will be demonstrating the newest version of Webots and showing different Webots applications, including real robots and a programming contest.

Flying over the Reality Gap: From Simulated to Real Indoor Airships
Blimp Jean-Christophe Zufferey, et al. from LIS published an article in Autonomous Robots presenting a physics model in Webots of indoor airships used to evolve neuro controllers for a vision-based task. The resulting controller could be transfered successfully into a real blimp robot. The PDF paper is also available here. 

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