ROLL LABS
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02 — Complex systems

The corkscrew.

Multiple rolling interfaces, each following its own precisely specified motion, stacked into one system — a motion no legacy mechanism can produce.

[ Corkscrew ] Watch on YouTube ↗

Interfaces stacked into a system

Rolling interfaces combined in sequence, each contributing its own motion to the whole.

Pure rolling throughout

No meshing teeth and no sliding — the raceway geometry is solved so contact stays rolling.

A kinematic first

Motions that legacy mechanisms cannot achieve, coordinated by rolling contact alone.

Animation is a kinematic simulation of the rolling interfaces. Efficiency figures quoted elsewhere on this site are targets, pending physical validation.