Printable robots - those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3D printers - have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Internals of 3D printed “print and fold” robot. [Image source: MIT CSAIL] Robot design traditionally separates the body geometry from the mechanics of the gait, but they both have a profound ...

A robot arm guides a concrete extruder in a precise pattern, demonstrating 3D printing in concrete. The City of Nome, Penn State University and its spin-off business X-Hab 3D are partnering on a ...

The robot then uses compressed air to mix and spray the ingredients in patterns specified by instructions fed in from a laptop computer. The end product is a three dimensional rock-like sculpture ...

Minibuilder small scale robots from the Institute of Advanced Architecture in Barcelona, Spain can 3D print entire buildings on site. Working together, these robots are capable of printing ...

Washington: Soon, you may 3D-print a robot at home and then watch it assemble itself. ... and generates the 2D patterns that would enable a piece of plastic to reproduce it through self-folding. The ...

But many of those obstacles melt away when you can 3-D print a robot with liquids and solids simultaneously. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have done just that.

Print off an insect-type to do the grafting for you. Designing and manufacturing robots is a lengthy and expensive process, and is therefore generally limited to research or large manufacturers.

The six-inch hexapod robot designed to prove the concept takes 22 hours to print, which isn't long considering its complexity. It moves using 12 hydraulic bellows that are printed right onto its body.

The Cognitive Patterns system is being developed to help robots understand what they perceive through their cameras and other sensors. It’s sometimes easy to forget that for all their human-like ...