The mechanism doesn’t necessarily need the physical surfaces to roll across each other to work, and you can get to two degrees of freedom with the virtual rolling sphere mechanism. [Skyentific ...

[James Bruton] is experimenting is a series of interesting mechanical mechanisms, the latest being a CVT transmission system which uses a tilting sphere to get a variable speed output from a ...

MOSCOW, 6th April, 2025 (WAM) – Scientists at Russian Izhevsk State Technical University have created the first prototype of a sphere robot, which uses a combined principle for movement.