For the budding roboticist, omniwheels might be the next step in design patterns from your everyday “getting-started” robot kits. These wheels consist of tiny rollers that sit on the perimeter ...

James Bruton is a serial crazy-contraption inventor, from a Lego longboard to a self-balancing mecanum-wheeled "Screw bike." ...

[Teemu Laurila] was frustrated with what was on offer, so designed his own with four-wheel double wishbone suspension and mecanum wheels ... Drive comes from small motor/gearboxes at each axle.

Using a series of four mecanum wheels (more frequently ... The electronic control box he's built and programmed controls how the big wheels operate and compensate for each other.