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Overview
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The Webots mobile robotics simulation software provides you with a rapid
prototyping environment for modelling, programming and simulating mobile
robots. The included robot libraries enable you to transfer your control
programs to many commercially available real mobile robots.
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Commercial brochure
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Webots 5 commercial brochure is available as a PDF file.
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Licenses
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Webots comes with two different flavors: Webots PRO is more powerful and intended for research use whereas Webots EDU is less powerful but cheaper for educational use.
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|  Each Webots license comes with a USB dongle allowing you to move easily your Webots software from one machine to another.
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Floating licenses are available as an option. They allow any computer on your local network to use Webots without the need for a dongle on every computer. Only the computer running the Webots floating license server needs a dongle. This computer takes care that the total number of simultaneous running instances of Webots doesn't exceed the number of floating licenses you purchased. The technical information about the Webots floating license server is available here. It can be installed on either Linux, Windows or Mac OS X.
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Philosophy behind Webots
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Mobile robotics is a complex research area in which many advanced
technologies and open research issues are combined all together. Technologies
include electronics, mechanics, computer hardware and software. It is often
difficult to master perfectly every technology, and hence mobile robotics
projects require an important investment. Realistic simulations and fast
prototyping of mobile robots help reducing the amount of time and hardware
spent in developing mobile robotics applications. Moreover, such software
tools allow researchers and students to focus on the most interesting parts of
their robotics projects and hence achieve more advanced results.
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Scientific publications
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2004: Webots: Professional Mobile Robot Simulation, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 1, Num. 1, pages 39-42.
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