This Robot Drives on Wobbly Wheels (but HOW?) 

At 6:45 you wrote that those are wobbler wheels and at 7:22 5 spoke wheels :D I had to point that sorry :D

This is one of those ideas that I didn't knew I needed in my life

wildlife expert: "And here we have the tracks of the rare golden viper" Angus: hmmm

This is the definition of “re-inventing the wheel!”

You thought you got away with sneaking a "wheelie excited" joke in at 5:50 but I see you

F for the guy who walked on the beach after him and never figured out what made those squiggly tracks.

This man's literally trying to reinvent the wheel

Makes me imagine selling a remote control children’s toy with collect em all wheels

"Major Hardware's Fan Showdown, but for RC wheels" sounds like a wonderful series.

“they bury themselves to hide their shame like crabs” that is the phrase that won my sub

Ok but now can we make a big set of wobblers and put them on a full size car? 👀

Imagine having fifty of those nightshade wheels on each side of the car to create this sorta trippy wave effect as it moves about.

8:00 "Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony..."

Imagine someone looking at those tracks on the beach and trying to figure out what made them 😂

This is starting to get a "fan showdown" vibe and I love it.

I’d be really interested in seeing how these wheels perform in water as an amphibious vehicle. There’s something about the side to side motion of the wobble wheel that makes me think it could produce some interesting results.

him: "i made these curby bois" me: "thats a pringle tho"

I'm not interested in drawing this up, but I welcome someone else to: You want more ground clearance to avoid bottoming out. You need fins for traction without being so deep they creating a rotary shovel. Finally, you want to spread the surface area of the wheel across the largest possible ground surface to prevent the wheels from sinking or digging into lose sand, similar to a snow shoe. Create wheels with 3 spokes, each ending in a kind of curved snowshoe (like you had a full wheel but cut away everything except a few ovals of tread). Use the largest gaps between the snow shoe hatches that can still can compact loose sand without letting a lot through. Elongate a few of the hatches on the snow shoes just enough to dig into sand, but no more. Think about which diagonals to use for the traction fins. I'd lean toward using the same angle on the two diagonals, but reversing it for the adjacent wheels. Other options include having the left match and the right match, and they can either create an arrow, pressing sand in, or a V pressing sand out. The last option is matching the two front, and matching the two back, but I fear that would create a tenancy to pull the front and back in different directions and encourage spinning in place in certain situations. Likewise, think about the contact pattern as the wheels rotate, so that you always have 2 snow shoes down, and curve the leading and trailing edges of the snow shoes so they contact smoothly and not on edge, particularly when starting from a stop.

The design of the "all the wheels" one was very "90's/early 2000's toy aesthetic" imo

This is so beautiful, thanks for sharing this, this is basically art itself.

This is marvellous work! Congratulations! I would love to see how they compare when they are combined to a thorus. According to the last part of the video, the common wheels are combined with these patterns so they get more traction. Maybe when these patterns are around a thorus (or common wheel), they don't end up digging in the sand, but the pattern is still exploited to go forward.

2:48 damn those wheels move smoother than my life

Tbh, I think ground clearance is more of an issue than the wheels themselves.

So beautiful, Art in motion! :)

Brilliant! Thanks for putting a smile on my face and making my day. Success.

Sand is an incredibly challenging surface. In fact every type of surface has its own dynamics. Mud, ice, asphalt, concrete, snow, pebble, dirt, cobblestone, and any of those with standing water on them are all going to show dramatically different results. Who knows maybe prongles are killer on cobblestone in amazing ways.

Looks to be a body design failure, rather than the wheel issue. Stilted or high center might give more clear results

Everything you did is beyond my skill set you're awesome

I wonder if those wobbler wheels can be used in amphibious vehicles as a main propulsion system because when you show them driving they really look like flippers of some kind of sea creature.

2:43 this is one of the most satisfying things I've seen in my life

The wobbly wheels reminded me of baby turtles scrambling to shore. So naturally I'm curious.... Can it swim? 😝

Your MiA collection just earned you a sub!

in sand and while climbing, what you need is a licked differential usually used in the rear, it makes it that the wheels on both sides are only able to turn at the same speed. this would eliminate most of the burying problems with the wheels because it could use all the wheels to get out of a hole instead of just the one that got stuck :/ great content, subbed right away

This man is out here literally reinventing the wheel and I am here for it

such a cool project! love the design of the platform 👌😎

beautiful stuff

BRILLIANT, mate! 🙌🏼

When it moves quickly, it almost looks like a sea creature skimming across the ocean floor.

This could become a serie with people sending you their wheels design. Like the channel Major Hardware testing the 3d printed fans.

3:00 when background is more appealing than main event

beautifully done. you gained my subscription today sir.

6:04 the fact that it's always pulling to the right might be due to the direction (nap) of the woven carpet. Because of the way carpet is produced sometimes force the "hairs" of the carpet in one direction. Stroking the carpet from different angles you might be able to spot a different resistance.

This should be an internationally available toy. I'd have loved one of these as a kid and I'd still love it!

This can be a very entertaining online series which I would love to root for :D

This is awesome!

sand tires also have a lot of surface area touching the ground in general, the gaps in the spoke wheel don't keep it elevated above the sand

Can't believe how I was rooting for those spoke wheels. Thanks for adding fun to our day and all without obnoxious music too!

Very cool! Matt's Off Road Recovery needs to see this :)

“A bit beyond my skill set at this time” .. Mate... you’re my Superhero..!!

"let's call them... PRONGLE wheels" You sir earned a like and subscribe

"Dorato" wheels would be the bold next step to this project.

Insufficient ground clearance was all that stopped the spoked wheels from completing the course. A larger diameter would have made a big difference. Loved the experiment. This is the way of progress - playing with new ideas and looking out for the "that's funny" moment where something both unexpected and enlightening happens.

We need channel like this

Something like a "screw" wheel or a "frill" wheel might improve on the spoke wheel. Think the shape of a jester's neck ruff. Like a combo of the wobbler, prongle and spoke.

As a longboarder who uses Sharkwheels, seeing this wobbly robot rolling down the beach brought a big smile to my face.

Reinventing The Tank. Very nice Thanks..!

Thanks for posting this MM. Love the Oloid and the Wobbler, such smooth movers. On my drive to work I go past a garden full of different metal wind turning illusions which all look great when they move in unison. Seeing the Wobbler I'd have thought that vibration would be quite bad at high speed but I think the 5 spoke is a good wheel. Also surprising was how well the 4 different wheels worked together. I mix plasters and mortars and want an optimum paddle mixer end that mixes the material by pulling it up from the bottom of the bucket to the top and wondered if you could come up with something. If it works well then we should go 50/50 on any profits made from it's online global sales :) Earlier this year I bought a fancy revolutionary new whisk made from a polyurethane resin that looked like 2 elongated O's on a stick which turned out to be rubbish at mixing mortar but may be revolutionary with gypsum plaster because it has finer granules, I don't know and didn't bother finding out because it was shite at the work I needed it to do and went back to my original circular whisk and got my money back. Otherwise how about a film on different wind turners please.

The flow of that thing looks so natural but odd at the same time

You made a chassis for a street race car: wide and with a low CG. And then you want to climb sandy hills with this car...

This one of those vids you get recommended, then you just have to subscribe after just one video

I can watch all the wobbly wheels moving all day long and not get bored.

Did i really hear you say "I wheally wanna find out!". Well done sir.

The wobbler wheel rolling on the sand fills me with unreasonable joy

I like that you tried different wheels and tested them. Thats how science is made

You have conducted a study for another revolution 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Watching those wobblers slowly scratch a double helix in the sand is quite possibly the most satisfying thing I've ever seen

Really looks more like a creature than a car when it's moving along the beach like that 😂

so smoothh, waoo, never imagined that.

You could try a 2/2 configuration. I'd be really interested to see the prongle wheels on the front and the spoke wheels on the back, then run that on sand--might be interesting results.

Regarding the “pull to the right” That’s because of the carpet pile direction. I’ve notecard that many time with a vacuum. You push it one was and the carpet pushes its to the side. Go the Other way across and pushes the same cardinal direction.

It took mankind thousands of years to invent the wheel, RU-vid managed to make the wheel square again in 15 years

You r an awsome techno beast!! ❣️

This man is literally reinventing the wheel

The 4 different wheels being one of the most stable in the pulling test, literally made me laugh.

I feel like the bigger problem was the body getting stuck in the sand, rather than the wheels. If you build it like a jeep with more clearing to the ground, the wheels should have done a lot better

Props to the guy that thought of it

So you basically reinvented the wheel! Congrat!

The wobblers and its tracks on the sand look so satisfying

Mankind's earliest and possibly greatest invention is the wheel, it's 2021 and I'm watching some guy reinvent the wheel and I'm just amazed

Geometry be weird, but really, you've just made a diagonal width of the strip on the slanted wheel, straight on the disc wheel. If the length doesn't change, it must increase the width compared to an absolute Y-axis. Like if you rotated the diagonal line in a square to be oriented like one of its sides, that diagonal would now be longer than the sides. Took me a second though! Nice video :)

Is there a part 2? This was very entertaining lol

The orange wheels don’t really seems like wobbly wheels. They just look like they’d be good for rough terrain

The wobbly wheels looks like fins. So, can it swim?

This was very interesting. You are a very creative individual with a great potential future ahead of you! What Country do you love in, or what Nationality are you?

Really cool 🙂

I see the Made in Abyss manga series, this man is cultured.

I reckon two things need to change- 1. Test on multiple terrains, of course any wheels with a perfectly smooth contact surface would get absolutely trashed on anything except smooth concrete 2. Double or triple the surface area allowed, as we can see even standard wheels have insufficient traction

The 8 spoke design had more surface area than the others. It was utilizing 3 sides of each spoke during the sand tests, versus the one side it was using on the carpet. This is apparent, when you see the close up of the wheels sheet going through the sand. It had sand on at least the sides of spoke, revealing it had more contact area. Make sure that's corrected in future data :)

Its most certainly within your capabilities to be able to figure out the simplicity of an ESC/Motor/Receiver/Transmitter system. It's very straight forward, and with the advancements of technology, modern RC's are a much simpler, more reliable system. I figured it out, and I feel you're well above my comprehension!! Great vid though!! Thanks for this!

Imagine someone walking down the beach and thinking, "what kind of animal made those tracks???"

This man is really trying to reinvent the wheel And I fully support it

Very impressive. You do know of course that if you replaced the wheels with tank treads, it would get more traction and more surface area contact with the sand. I wanted to make such a vehicle with tank treads that actually wrapped around the entire vehicle, so that the full surface of the vehicle was in contact with the sand. I think that would be the best way possible to keep a vehicle from getting trapped in the sand.

I gotta say. This really shows that size and mass matter for a vehicle. Imagine trying to put a car through hills and potholes of similar scale to a car.

5:52 "I'm wheely excited"

yo that night shade thing would SWIMM AMAZINGLY, the wobblyness would move the water the right way!!

The purple wobbler wheels in the sand make it looks like a baby turtle flapping about. 😂

Nice music👍👍 nice design

When it comes to loose material like sand, it's all about having paddle wheels that act kind of like a scoop. You want to push against as much material as you can, but you don't want it getting stuck in any recesses the tire has.

you should try to make the "prongle"-wheels have four wobbles instead of two, that might give them some sort of additional "digging"-capability, due to those wobbles catching sand in between themselves.

Love the double helix in the sand!