The Audi Snook is the name given to a concept for a single-wheeled
vehicle
A vehicle (from la, vehiculum) is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, mobility scooters for disabled people), railed vehicles (trains, trams), wa ...
(one large
wheel
A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axle Bearing (mechanical), bearing. The wheel is one of the key components of the wheel and axle which is one of the Simple machine, six simple machines. Wheels, in conjunction wi ...
countered with 3 counter-wheels) that is stabilized electronically. It was originally designed by Tilmann Schlootz, a German who won the
Michelin
Michelin (; ; full name: ) is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ''région'' of France. It is the second largest tyre manufacturer in the world behind Bridgestone and la ...
Design Award 2008 for this design. No vehicle has yet been constructed as a result of the technological research student project.
See also
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Ballbot
A ball balancing robot also known as a ballbot is a dynamically-stable mobile robot designed to balance on a single spherical wheel (''i.e.'', a ball). Through its single contact point with the ground, a ballbot is omnidirectional and thus e ...
External links
Tilmann Schlootz personal websiteDesign of the Audi Snook at carbodydesignAudi Snook at youtube*
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Snook
Snook, Snooks, or Snoek may refer to:
Fishes
* Family Centropomidae (snooks)
** Common snook
* Family Esocidae (pikes)
** '' Haplochromis insidiae''
** Northern pike
* Family Gempylidae (snake mackerels)
** Blacksail snake mackerel or black sn ...