3D printers are capable of producing complex shapes, but making functioning objects from multiple materials in a single print-run has proved challenging. To overcome this, a team has combined ...

I was reminded of that recently when I got a peek at how one of the leading manufacturers of industrial automation solutions uses 3D printing extensively to create its robots and end effectors ...

RC motors, fabric, and 3D printers are coming together in Philadelphia to create the first biologically correct robot dinosaurs so scientists can learn more about how the extinct creatures lived ...

Technology nowadays can really spur creativity and there's nothing you can't do with a 3D printer, CAAD and some skills. Like a surveillance military robot.

DIY soft robot heaven is a place on the internet And researchers want to speed up that pace even further. Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences recently published an open source ...

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

And it’s also the future of manufacturing. As 3D printing improves, it will be used to build electronics, tools, and even bicycles. So your little robot represents the bleeding edge of ...

The robot can even get up and walk away from the printer, after an external motor and battery is added. The scientists' work on the walking and slightly creepy hexapod robot (and other 3D printed ...

Companies like MakerBot and Formlabs, which make desktop 3D printers, have popularized such techniques in recent years. The real world But MX3D's robots aren't anything like desktop 3D printers.

The new 3D ultrasonic sensors will transform a mobile robot's spatial awareness from 2D to 3D which offers improved safety performance over traditional vision systems. "MiNaLab has focused on this ...