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Re: Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimbaled Drive

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
It seems that it would be hard to scale up. Scaling up to FRC level would be fine, but to a commercial level would not be all that easy. What I imagine is that the wheel platform would just snap. It's like trying to stand on one leg and trying to rotate your foot. I think there would be too much torque acting on that to be safe.
Commecial robots vary greatly in size, one company, FANUC makes robots designed to handle maximum payloads from 5kg-1200kg, obviously if these were made mobile they would require significantly different Drive systems.
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