From the beginning, military tanks have relied on a specially designed propulsion system. Learn what this belt system is ...

Hacksmith Industries. Engineering Dilemma: Legs or Treads for the Ultimate Exosuit? Posted: March 26, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. When it comes to building a real-life power loader, every ...

This robot doesn’t know if it’s a walker or a tank. It’s the brain-child of [Marc Hamende] who works as a mechanical engineer by day and mad roboticist at night. The best place to… ...

Spiritually, the unwieldy and stupidly heavy Tesla Cybertruck may be more akin to a tank than your typical SUV. Throw some treads onto one, and you may be onto something. Lo and behold, that's ...

Last week, we thought the golf cart-styled ATV wheelchair was pretty cool. But that was before we saw the Tank Chair. Sporting a pair of enormous tank treads, this chair makes quick work of ...

Spiritually, the unwieldy and unusually heavy Tesla Cybertruck may be more akin to a tank than your typical SUV. Throw some treads onto one, and you may be onto something. And lo and behold, that's ...

We’re about a lot more than wars, hopefully; when it’s performed before, say, football games, it seems to me kind of inappropriate, like tank treads on a Rose Bowl float.

Making a wheelchair that can deal with steps and other obstacles has puzzled engineers for decades, with everything from tank treads to spokes tried and found not quite practical. Now a team of ...

Most millipedes have far fewer than 750 legs, and the leg-count record hasn’t been broken since the 1920s, says Paul Marek, an entomologist at Virginia Tech. But hope is hard to kill.

It's a fairly menacing sight, an aluminum robot sporting big tank treads -- that is, until you watch one of its creators do a handstand on top of the thing in a pair of cargo shorts. And really ...