Webots Webots™ Newsletter
News for the Webots™ user community.
November 2008
Webots 6.0.beta2 released!
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Webot 6.0.beta2 is available for download for Linux 32, Linux 64, Mac OS X and Windows! Webots 6 features many great improvements on the Webots 5 series, including a new graphical user interface with a main window including sub-windows, a new reworked programming interfaces (in C, C++, Java, Python, URBI), a more powerful supervisor API, new devices (Gyro, Compass, reworked GPS and Accelerometer), a built-in motion editor and many small improvements and bug fixes. Regular users of Webots 5 under the terms of their Premier service will be able to upgrade free of charge.

GECCO'2009 to run a Webots-based salamander robot competition
GECCO'2009 Pier Luca Lanzi, Ivan Tanev and Auke-Jan Ijspeert are setting up a new competition for the GECCO 2009 conference to be held in Montréal, Canada, July 8-12, 2009. This competition will rely on the Salamander robot model developed by Auke-Jan Ijspeert and simulated in Webots by Jérome Braure and Yvan Bourquin. A nice introductory video show all the GECCO-2009 competitions, including this Webots-based salamander simulation. A downloadable package and more information will be made available soon, so that competitors can register to enter the competition.
Webots / Nao / URBI tutorial [french]
librebot Bothari, one of the best competitors in the robotstadium competition set up a very nice web site [french only for now] which includes a tutorial explaining how to set up a nice humanoid robot simulation, based on Webots, the Nao humanoid robot model and the URBI programming language. A blog with a forum and a nice video featuring 3 dancing Nao robots are also available from his web site at http://librebot.free.fr. Bothari would surely appreciate any comments about his promising work.
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