Airtrax

[Tjita1]

The sidewinder lift truck is joystick controlled! *shows a picture of an inanimate joystick*

[SidedriverDotCom]

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[ethybob]

WHY IS THAT WOMAN OPERATING MACHINERY?! 

[ethybob]

The guy who tried to go through the door in a conventional lift looks ridiculous.

[h4rv3st]

Michaeal Jackson came back has a forklift!

[cairun]

looks interesting. how heavy of a load can it handle?

[phyriz007]

This is the fork lift of the future...I know this cause I saw it in the new Star Trek movie. It was moving cargo around when the crew was getting assigned to there ships.

[mellowmark1]

Great design.

[LadFromBrad]

Holy shit, did you see that? The Sidewinder can be driven by women too!!

[nathanPWN]

6.2 mph?! i wish my car went that fast.

[moniker127]

Looks pretty cool. 

[MoFlowBG]

1:33 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[supernewt]

why am i watching this?

[iRemainNameless]

@supernewt I'm not sure why we're BOTH watching this?!

It seems strangely hard NOT to watch.

[3370985]

I saw those on a science show 25 year ago. The show was called Science International. A show I watched as a kid.

[flixmsncom]

nice try on 1:33 :P

[get1fit]

凄い技術だなーー

[addernoir01]

This I wouldn't have believed unless I'd seen it. It doesn't even require any major change in the vehicle's principal design to causes major changes in usability. I assume this must make previously impossible or impractical storage layouts now quite viable. If I had to name the most innoative invention I'd ever seen this would be it!

[cybraxium]

the problem with those tires is they dont work well on uneven surfaces. The tire itself also has a lower carrying capacity but they have solved this by using better materials, overall a very fun system to drive.

[frydmania]

Can't go up and down or underwater - though very cool - deploy the airtrax on a bus and slide into the narrowest spot

[gtrunner2]

that was in in the new star trek movie

[DerRonDon]

wenn er absteigen würde bei dem holz dann bräuchte man nich so nen stapler...

[TechnicalFreak]

Whoever invented that.. is now a billionaire.

[danefmiller]

I saw this in new startrek movie.

[arashi0710]

これすげー

[TheAfterPipe]

will it blend? But seriously that is the most amazing thing ever created.

[genen15parsent]

すごい発明だな。

開発したエンジニア達を尊敬するよ。

[iruka0040]

革新！

最高！最高！

[TOAOSpot]

Terribly cool! Now, to discover how spendy it is.  Coolness always comes with a price. . .

[rjlynch]

MSRP is $35 000.00

[aguinasu]

Great!

[NathanKlo]

How much and where do I buy?

[NORFIE123456]

i dont get how the wheels work and if i was to ever drive one could i drive one with a normal counterbalance license (electric of course)

[literbikedoc]

Don't think it would survive the hire industry somehow - I can see those rollers chewing out really quickly on most outdoor sites / mining .

Awesome for warehouses by the looks though .

[unnamednewbie13]

Very cool, but it would probably be cheaper for me to move into a bigger warehouse than to buy one of these.

[uhmgoon]

afaik, airtrax developed this vehicle for navy to use in aircraft carriers, and it would be much cheaper to buy this one than to make bigger aircraft carrier. :)

[unnamednewbie13]

Yeah, I know they want to foist it off on the military, but it's such an awesome toy that I'd like one too...except it ain't gonna happen. :P

[LeadNinja07]

Any direction except up or down.

[tahonglicker]

pfft wonkavator > this

[Systech217]

That's pretty awesome, Shawn Elliot.

[fitemil]

this could actually make segways Cool :P

[randomizer]

I can't run upwards or downwards though...

[phrawgg2]

I'd buy at least one.

[amiskorolla]

I bet that you cant but snow chains on those kind of wheels...

[typ237]

It doesn't look like it's about to snow in that warehouse

[amiskorolla]

So is that warehouse the only place where you could use that truck? That sound stupid if you ask me.... :p

[typ237]

I didn't ask you

[amiskorolla]

Take it easy mate. ;)

[typ237]

I am taking it easy, chillax

[pudicus2]

I don't know about this, so many more moving parts means a lot more maintenance

[ILoveTeaCosys]

The should make these in cars

It would mke Pararell Parking Safer and Easier

[rctruckclubsuisse]

very interesting, could be the future...

[drhitler]

damn, why so much hate for this awesome design?

[ivanmarsh]

Can it keep my stoned co-workers from running into things with it?

[iliannrs]

No but they will run into things forward... backward... sideways!

[Momcilo97]

Saw this in 'Prototype This' on Discovery when they made a car than parks itself.

[ragespot]

standar lift must be WAY cheaper

[naughtyneighbor]

covalently lubricated!

[flashflores]

and what happens when this piece of shit breaks, who at the job site is qualified to fix this tonka toy

[sagewah]

Obviously, not you.

[eegahchaka]

yeah screw new technology!

[Du4No]

Quite an engeeniring feat this is.

[asdfgahnnahn]

GAY GAY this forklift is dumb. 5 bucks itll be broken in about a month or something

[jlarpi]

Prob right.

[VERSA86]

Lame! I'm saving my money for hovering capable vehicles instead! hehe

[randumbusername]

micheal jackson and james brown have a lawsuit.

[argaen21]

if they had vince from shamwow selling these things on tv i would totally order one lol.

[Makana]

Look at this: just moved the boards sideways, my forklift's still dry! No dropped cargo, no clumps o' hair, nothin'!

[argaen21]

I just went through the door sideways; you followin me camera guy??

[da5id6301]

I'll take one wheelchair model please. Can you get it to go up stairs too?

[mchopsky]

NO FUCKING WAY. I heard about this in one of my industrial engineering classes and I didnt believe it.

[scr1be]

it was on mythbusters.

[Isakhaer]

Woah.... Cutting edge fork-lifts! Never knew it was this interesting! I will now dedicate my life fully to driving these beauties, as well as helping development get even futher! Win! 5/5

[AboveTheDust]

Welcome to 1973.

They're called Mecanum wheels, and they've been around since the 70s. The patent has recently expired too...

[BigOldJimmy]

That's good, then; if the patent is expired, then more companies can use the technology without having to pay a license, making for competition that brings down the cost.

[play3393]

Holy shit guys, did you see that? The Sidewinder can go BACKWARDS!

[ZX44ZX]

very kewl

[user4679]

A Seawalking forklift? Take that Usher.

[ArabianStig]

wooo no more parallel parking

[realblublu]

Neat machine.

[mockduckcompanion]

why is this better than wheels? and if wheels break, anyone with basic mechanical knowledge might fix them, whereas with these, you're fucked.

[ReasonTide]

...becasue wheels arent omni directional, when was the last time you saw a car driving sideways?

[jwilks1111]

its called training.

[togaboy]

are you kidding? if wheels break, you don't fix them. you replace the wheel. if you mean axle repair, then you're just plain wrong. think about your naysay before you naysay.

[tonypotenza]

WOW at 1:28, just wow (woodlooger in canada)

[jmart550]

Amazing!

[Kriss9020]

i hope the factory's can buy that forklift in Sweden

[haji90]

holy cow

i want this on my porsche!

[DXAQSHUNR]

This was on the program PROTOTYPE THIS and they said it couldnt be used on a road vehicle because the wheel system doesnt move that fast

[theodorbrinch]

they didnt invent that its been out for ages in airports. next time your on a plane look out the window and try and see how they get the luggage on the plane

[cixcell]

umm carts and baggage handlers?

[roidroid]

i would have thought each of the 6 "mini wheels" on each wheel had a seperate motor making for a total of 29 motors.

But the video says the whole Airtrax forklift has only 5 motors, that's interesting.

[Kaeluka]

Think it through - each of the four wheels needs only one motor. The movement vector of each of the wheels shows outside, starting from the middle of the vehicle. If every wheel is rotating forward/backward, the outward components eliminate each other, the vehicle is moving forward/backwards. if the front wheels are rotating in the opposite direction than the backwheels, the vehicle will move to the side. rotation, etc. can be realised through simple vector-addition... pretty sweet..

[roidroid]

ah i see, the miniwheels are freewheeling.

i thought it'd be more complicated that that.

i guess it would be easier than i initially thought to custom fit any vehicle with these kinds of wheels.

[Kaeluka]

Well, in fact, there's still a lot of math to do, but similar designs of omni-directional wheels are used on soccer robots:

watch?v=-Y4H3Sox_4I

[a4ls]

Should be hard to get wintertyres on ahahaha

Can I get this in Chrome? ;-)

[RolexiF]

I bet these "wheels" can't spin fast enough to use at normal automobils. Still, they are pretty cool.

[kippupu]

Imagine how easy driving and parking might become if you can move in any direction.

[qxxx]

maybe something for the girls?.. ;)

[ArkitekturaMecanics]

Perhaps in a few year's time we can use these wheels in the military level too! Its cool to see jeeps or warplanes (b4 takeoff) move like that.