Airtrax Omnidirectional Forklift — 'As big an advance as the wheel'

That's more or less the gist of what the narrator says at the beginning of the of the video showing off the capabilities of this amazing machine (above).

Rob tipped me off about Airtrax in his comment on the ForkLiftTrader.com post of April 12.

He wrote:

If you want to check out a cool forklift look at the demo video at airtrax.com.

This company makes the world's only omni-directional forklift (and it can climb over some pretty impressive stuff) using patents formerly owned by the U.S. Navy.

I must say that watching that big forklift move sideways like it was moonwalking was pretty darn impressive.

Airtrax — The Official Omnidirectional Forklift of bookofjoe.

[via Rob and gotpong.com]