Continually Variable Transmission with Clutch & Reverse

AD Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to to get 50% off your first order of Keeps hair loss treatment. I previously built an omni-directional robot with ball-shaped wheels. Each wheel had a hemisphere which if free moving. There were some suggestions that these hemispheres could be powered, although we’d have to vary the velocity as the main axel rotates because a small circumference will be touching the ground. We can use this to our advantage however to make a continually variable reduction or continually variable transmission (CVT). Often CVTs use belts running between two pulleys which can change diameter, but in this video we’re going to use a ball. Videos featured: