They reinvented the wheel, it's pretty neat.

  • 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