Mecanum wheel-fitted robots or industrial machines can make a 180 degree turn without taking much space, whereas a normal forklift takes a lot of space and t...

They reinvented the wheel, it's pretty neat.

  • Ideology [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Forklift drivers are already super dangerous. Why would I want them to have chess queen powers so they can kill me in more directions?

  • mao_zedonk [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Is there any non-cgi video of these working as suggested here?

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      i looked it up after watching this video. you'll see Shatter doing a lot of strafing and super fast turn arounds, those are possible because it has this type of wheel.

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Wheels within wheels...

  • Mother [any]
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    3 years ago

    It’s cool but I wonder if such a small point of contact traction would be an issue, and you can do the same force analysis in the vertical direction, so all the weight of the vehicle would be resting on a very small point of contact possibly leading to a failure of the roller axles on a forklift over time. Not sure how well it would work in heavy load applications

    Edit: forklift video

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3OBb_b89k