Mumbai, April 8 -- Science Robotics magazine featured Hankook Tire's latest product- Transforming Tire- on its cover page. Hankook Tire developed this new tyre in collaboration with a research team from Seoul National University. This was led by Professor Kyu-Jin Cho from the department of 'Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.' Kyu-Jin is also a director of the 'Human-centric Soft Robotics Research Centre.'

The tyre has been developed under 'The Next Driving Lab' project with the use of specially developed materials and paper folding craft. The 'Transforming Tire' is capable of changing its structure according to various road conditions and can bear loads of up to 1 tonne. The Transforming Tire is designedto transform into a smaller tir...