DEFORMABLE WHEEL

A deformable wheel, comprising a hub; a deformable tread surrounding the hub spaced apart therefrom; and a plurality of spokes extending between the hub and the tread, each spoke being secured to the tread at a respective tread-to-spoke attachment location and to the hub at a respective hub-to-spoke attachment location, each spoke being movable between a first configuration wherein the respective tread-to-spoke attachment location is closest to the respective hub-to-spoke attachment location and a second configuration wherein the respective tread-to-spoke attachment location is furthest from the respective hub-to-spoke attachment location. The spokes are configured and sized and operatively coupled to each other so that the tread maintains a single predetermined elongated shape by varying a tread-to-hub distance between each of the pairs of respective tread-to-spoke and hub-to-spoke attachment locations as the spokes are moved between the spoke first and second configurations.