These Vehicles Can Drive Anywhere

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:01]Wheels are great until you hit deep mud, thick snow, or a swamp.

[00:00:07]Then they're completely useless.

[00:00:10]So, some engineers asked a simple question.

[00:00:13]What if you replace the wheels with screws?

[00:00:16]That's exactly what the Soviet Union did in the 1970s.

[00:00:20]>> [music] >> They built a full-size truck with giant rotating helical cylinders instead of wheels.

[00:00:26]>> [music] >> The screws grip the ground, mud, water, and snow equally well, pushing the vehicle forward through terrain that would swallow a regular truck whole.

[00:00:36]That design was recently brought back into production.

[00:00:39]And a robot called Helix Neptune uses the exact same principle today.

[00:00:44]Would you swap wheels for screws?