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Timothy Wolfe Bretl

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Picture of LEMUR IIb, click for a movie.

A new and improved video of LEMUR IIb climbing. [MPEG-1]

Picture of Tim and a real climbing robot, LEMUR IIb, click for a movie.

Click to watch a preliminary, first-ever demonstration of a real robot climbing through a real (well, climbing-wall style) vertical environment consisting of arbitrarily placed holds. (Note: the movie has been edited and sped-up for ease of viewing, but it was taken in a single run and all of the motion planning was online and autonomous.) [MOV]

Picture of planar robot in a 3D simulation, click for a movie.

This planar robot can climb through a vertical environment using the motion-planning algorithms I have developed. Click to view a movie. [AVI] [MPEG-1]

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I recently started posting answers to strange Macintosh OSX problems that have arisen since I got a new 12" PowerBook G4.

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