by Marshall Brain | April 16, 2009
The AirTrax Sidewinder forklift:
The wheel used on this forklift is called a Mecanum wheel, and these wheels have many applications. For example, on wheel chairs:
And robots:
For more info see: AirTrax.com
For more info on Mecanum wheels see:
1) Improved Mecanum wheel design for omni-directional robots
2) Designing Omni-Directional Mobile Robot with Mecanum Wheel
See also: How Forklifts Don’t Work
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