South Korean Team Develops Wheels That Climb over Barriers — VOA Learning English
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Imagine a wheelchair equipped with wheels flexible enough to move over all kinds of barriers: including the raised edges of streets.
A robotic delivery vehicle could use the same wheels to go up stairs to deliver food or other purchases.
This is what researchers from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) see as the future for their 'morphing' wheel. The wheels can change their shape and can roll over barriers up to 1.3 times their radius. The radius of a wheel is half its height.
Other possible applications for the morphing wheel include robots that gather information about an enemy in the battlefield.
The KIMM team also hopes that morphing wheels will one day be used with two…
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