A Mecanum wheel made by FRC Team 2865, Roboteknix A wheelchair using Mecanum wheels URANUS omni-directional mobile robot Container loader with numerous powered mecanum wheels for shifting and rotation of containers. The Mecanum wheel is a design for a wheel which can move a vehicle in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel…

Wage growth has been the story of the jobs report for some time, especially as the unemployment rate has continued to fall to new lows, suggesting that slack in

Ron Howard had his work cut out for him stepping into Solo: A Star War Story – not only in working with a beloved franchise but picking up for other directors and the vision created 40 years ago by George Lucas. Howard told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show that Lucas – who he has…

HONOLULU (AP) — Nearly 1,500 residents were ordered to evacuate from their volcano-side homes after Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano erupted, sending molten lava to chew its way through forest land and bubble up on paved streets. Volcano officials couldn’t predict how long Thursday’s eruption may last, prompting Hawaii’s governor to activate the National Guard to help…

The U.S. economy created 164,000 jobs in April, coming in below the 192,000 payroll growth estimate from economists surveyed by Reuters. But as always, there are industries that are doing better or worse in terms of employment each month. Here are the net changes by industry for the month of April. Services and manufacturing industries…

Sven Ulreich has acknowledged he was caught in two minds as he allowed Karim Benzema to score for Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final, leaving Bayern Munich’s reserve goalkeeper distraught at the cost of a rare mistake. Ulreich failed to deal with a backpass in the second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu, where Benzema…

As Arsene Wenger faces up to his last home game as Arsenal manager, the club want to give him the send-off he deserves… but it still isn’t a fuss he desires. The French great just wants to get on with things and treat the Burnley fixture as a normal game, to the point it’s been…

A composite image showing smoke and lava during the eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Jeremiah Osuna-Facebook/Michael Bruck-Instagram Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Thursday evening. Lava burst through the ground in a residential area and spilt into the streets. Smoke could be seen spewing from a nearby crater, and 1,500 people have…