Here’s a 3D printed Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimballed Drive system which you can make at home. That’s a mouthful which is why it is commonly referred to as a HOG drive. Never heard of one? Well ...

Omnidirectional video cameras are becoming increasingly popular, although they're still mostly just used recreationally. A scientific research team, however, has now utilized one of the devices to ...

A small research group from the University of Michigan has developed a three-legged skating/shuffling robot called SKOOTR that rolls as it walks, can move along in any direction and can even rise up ...

In general, we appreciate lights with direction. We have so much control over where and how a directional source hits a subject. However, with having to shoot out large locations, we sometimes find ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Omnidirectional wheels ...

DIC's omnidirectional architecture multirotor, HAGAMOSphere™ is the drone that can move forward, backward, left, and right without tilting the aircraft because eight propellers are mounted diagonally ...

Ladies and gentlemen, some 20 years after the first seeing people jog stupidly on the spot while wearing a large headset and a glove, the future of gaming is finally here: The Omni, an omnidirectional ...

When it comes to automotive technology, we’ve seen a lot of advances in recent years – including more fuel-efficient vehicles, a rise in electric and hybrid engines, and the emergence of self-driving ...

While virtual reality is indeed a bold leap forward, it would be nice if you could take that leap without crashing into real obstacles in the real world. We’ve all seen videos of people wearing VR ...

Figure 1: Total light absorption in nanostructured metal surfaces. With a hexagonal lattice of period 500 nm, the wavelength of the onset of diffraction (433 nm) is well below the minimum wavelength ...