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Originally Posted by Bryce Paputa
The problem with hendo in this use, other than the copper floor requirement, is that AFAIK it can only be used to make things hover, it can't really be used for propulsion. It works by creating a magnetic field with the copper, and as the copper is flat, the field is only going to push up, normal to the surface of the copper.
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Nope! I had a chance to see propulsion using the Arx Pax MFA (Magnetic Field Architecture) at their lab
Its just a matter of how you shape the field, think of it this was, if the field is stronger on one end it can control propulsion by tilting and then driving the object (robot) forward.