Grippy Mecanums

Originally Posted by IndySam

The rollers themselves are not low friction.

The AndyMark rollers use a rubber compound that sticks to carpet quite well.

I have also seen custom wheels that use very sticky urethane.

A typical mecanum wheel will have a lot of traction in the forward direction, in fact I have seen mecanum bots push standard bots around.

Then why are mecanums considered "low-traction" wheels?