Webots Webots™ Newsletter
News for the Webots™ user community.		 March 2008 
"Rat's Life: A Cognitive Robotics Benchmark" paper published Webots 5.8.0 released!
Rat's Life A paper presenting the Rat's Life benchmark and associated contest has been published in the proceedings of the European Robotics Symposium 2008 (EUROS 2008). This paper was presented during the EUROS 2008 conference on March 26-27 along with a demo of the real setup. In the meanwhile, the Rat's Life contest is now running with 22 competing teams (see the Movie section of the web site). It's not too late to register and compete at www.ratslife.org to win a e-puck robot and a Webots package.

Webots A new release of Webots is available for download on our web site. This new version includes updates for the Rat's Life contest and the free Nao Robocup simulation. It also features a new version of URBI for Webots (1.5.4) and introduces several new features, like an improved movie creation and bugs fixes. The complete change log is available here.
Write URBI components in Java
URBI Gostai released Liburbi Java 1.5, based on its Liburbi C++. This allows you to write new URBI components in Java for your Webots controllers using URBI. More details and download are available from this web page.

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