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Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimbaled Drive

Just saw this Gizmodo.com and found it most interesting.
Youtube video: http://youtu.be/uaT7M3Nwj7c

I'd love to see someone scale this drive system up to FRC size. The popularity of swerve drive, and other omnidirectional drives, isn't going away anytime soon. It seems that a major technical hurdle facing teams is building the wheel units and linking them all together... and having multiple transmissions.

The maneuverability looks promising.


Oh, yeah, is this the correct forum for this topic? I don't post much