ANY KIND OF OFF-ROAD VEHICLES
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- Varlet Tank, Delaye, 1937
- Varlet Tank, Delaye, 1937. From book of Daniel Tard : 'Hotchkiss, petit dictionnaire du "juste milieu", Massin, 1994.
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- Aeroluge, 1942
- Aeroluge Tatra Type V 855 unique prototype, 1942. 75 hp engine, consumption 13l/100, speed 80 km/h. Issued from Tatra T97 of 1936. J M M at Rétromobile, Paris, 1999.
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- Delta Beetle Toyota 1991
- Delta Beetle Toyota, golden medal of Toyota competition 1991. With its triangular wheels and its tracks, it could go upstairs. Pict from 'Le Livre des Invention' from Valérie-Anne Giscard d'Estaing, Fixot 1993.
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- Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano 2
- Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano (or Erector). J M M at a Toys Show, Paris, April 1998.
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- Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano
- Locomotion like walking dragline in Meccano (or Erector). J M M at a Toys Show at Paris, April 1998.
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- Meccano Terrastar at a Toys Show in Paris, 1998
- Meccano Terrastar. J M M at a Toys Show at Porte de Versailles, Paris, 1998
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- Oval wheels like on a Meccano Vehicle
- Oval wheels like on a Meccano Vehicle. J M M a Toys Show at Paris, April 1998. See Chap 'The Wheel Reinvented'.
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- Tracked vehicle in Meccano/Erector
- Tracked vehicle model built with Meccano (or Erector). The 4 tracks each surrounds a Tri-Star wheel. J M M at Paris, April 2003.
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- Tractor with spring wheels
- Tractor with spring wheels. J M M at Sinsheim, Germany, Dec 2000.
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- Mecanum wheel of Segway RMP
- Mecanum wheel of Segway RMP. Mecanum wheel is omnidirectional but not really off-road. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel and http://rmp.segway.com/rmp-400-omni/
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- Tristar of Mechanical Stair-Climbing Transporter
- Tristar of Mechanical Stair-Climbing Transporter was a Senior Project in 1998 at Polytechnic University, NY. http://mechanical.poly.edu/academics/senior/sen98/transporter/transporter.htm
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- Worm like robot
- Worm like robot, new kind of locomotion at Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio. http://biorobots.cwru.edu/projects/softworm/
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- Cutangus tracked offroad vehicle
- Cutangus tracked offroad vehicle. On this drawing, tracks looks like legs to allow crossing obstacles.
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- Virginia Tech IMPASS robot at the VT campus, Wheg robot
- Virginia Tech IMPASS robot at the VT campus, Wheg robot, 2008. http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/video-virginia-techs-impass-robot-has-spokes-but-no-rims/
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- Toroïdal locomotion by inverted torus
- Toroïdal locomotion by inverted torus of Dr Valery Shihirin www.elastoneering.com Research on inverted torus seems to be continued since 2008 by Roman Maksymenko of Max-Master, region of Moscow. http://www.max-master.com/
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- Artisanal track on tire
- Artisanal track on tire seen on the Web, 2009.
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- M2A2 Terrastar
- M2A2 Terrastar was issued from Lockheed's Terrastar around 1968 and now in Rock Island Arsenal, Iowa. This prototype of the two survives. From Wikipedia
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- Alduro walking vehicle
- Alduro walking vehicle. http://www.uni-due.de/alduro/index_en.shtml