An international team of researchers have created a robot that can roll up an incline.
The invention is not breaking any laws. The fine-tuned oscillations of each of its individual segments allow it to push itself against the ground and even conquer obstacles as it makes its way up a hill.
The wheel's trick doesn't make sense. It's made up of individual motors that are linked together to form it's round structure, with each module connected to rubber band-loaded plastic arms that are arranged in such a way to generate opposite Torque.
The wheel stretches and expands in a way that allows it to roll uphill, thanks to the push and pull of the individual motor.
What happens in nature is not entirely different.
Nick Gravish, a roboticist at the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the research, said that animals are very complex.
It's not clear if biology is already using these processes. It is possible to learn more about the natural environment through the movement of leaderless swarms of animals.
The technology won't replace the wheel anytime soon.
Denis Bartolo, a physicist at the cole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, did not take part in the research.
There is a wheel made of odd matter.
There is a rock stuck in the Mars Rover's wheel.
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