Ntchitoyi idakwaniritsidwa pansi pa pulogalamu yatsopano yaukadaulo ya Ground X-Vehicle Technologies (GXV-T), mothandizidwa ndi gulu lankhondo la US. Ndendende, popanga gudumu latsopano lomwe limatha kudzisintha kukhala mbozi… ndi mosemphanitsa.
Wotchedwa "Reconfigurable Wheel-Track" (RWT), kapena, m'matembenuzidwe aulere, "Configurable Wheel-Track", gudumu lolingalira ili likufuna kuphatikiza ubwino wa mawilo ozungulira, mwachitsanzo, pa liwiro lapamwamba, ndi mphamvu za offroad zomwe zimatsimikiziridwa ndi mayendedwe. — kutanthauza, kudzera mu kuthekera kosintha, pafupifupi masekondi awiri, mawonekedwe ozungulira kukhala gudumu lamakona atatu. Izi, ndi galimoto ikuyenda!
RWT poyambirira idapangidwa ndi National Center for Robotic Engineering ku Carnegie Mellon University, ndipo ntchito yayikulu yaukadaulo ikuyembekezeka kukhala yankhondo. Popeza yankho limatsimikizira, malinga ndi asitikali, "kusintha kwakanthawi koyenda mwanzeru komanso kuyendetsa bwino, m'malo osiyanasiyana".
"Kukonzanso" kwa gudumu ndi imodzi mwamaukadaulo opangidwa pansi pa Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, kapena DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) pulogalamu. Mwa zina pali mota yamagetsi yophatikizidwa ndi gudumu, yomwe ili kale ndi kufalikira kophatikizika, komanso kuyimitsidwa kwamamitundu angapo kumadera ovuta kwambiri.
Kuyimitsidwa kwatsopano kumeneku, komwe kunapangidwa ndi kampani ya Pratt & Miller, kumatha kugwira ntchito modziyimira pawokha, pa gudumu, komwe kumakhala ndi ulendo wachilendo, wopitilira 1.8 m - 1066 mm pamwamba ndi 762 mm pansipa. Gulu lofunika kwambiri, mwachitsanzo, m'malo ovuta, kulola kuti thupi likhale lokhazikika nthawi zonse, ngakhale poyendetsa motsetsereka.
Onerani kanema wopangidwa ndikutulutsidwa ndi DARPA, yomwe imawulula izi ndi matekinoloje ena… ndipo, mwa njira, gwirani chibwano chanu!