Most military ground vehicles are equipped with either tires or tracks but DARPA’s Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program has given birth to a unique system which can transform from a wheel ...

Glorious news for all privates who’ve ever had to haul a Humvee out of a mud-filled ditch: A brand new wheel designed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’ (DARPA) could make the pain of ...

The Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T) program is DARPA’s attempt at creating the future combat vehicles for the U.S, military. The goal is to make these vehicles better, safer and tougher without ...

When we want to build something to go where wheels could not, the typical solution is to use tracks. But the greater mobility comes with trade-offs: one example being tracked vehicles can’t go as fast ...

Reconfigurable Wheel-Track ( RWT) ", a completely new type of automobile wheel that enhances the running performance by making the shape triangle when running on a rough road such as rough terrain ...

The best shape for a wheel is round...except when it isn't. In some cases, a vehicle will be able to operate more efficiently if its running on a set of tracks. A handful of companies offer seemingly ...

This captioned movie shows a shape-shifting wheel created by DARPA and Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Centre. The Reconfigurable Wheel-Track mechanism can transition from a ...