Researchers from MIT have created prototype assembly robots called BILL-E (Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer) that can build small structures on their own or work together to create ...

The V-shaped machines, called Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorers (or BILL-E), have two miniature arms that erect structures piece by piece.

As a nod to the 2008 Pixar film Wall-E, Jenett named the assembler robots BILL-E, which stands for Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer.

The team calls their creation BILL-E, short for Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer -- and, yes, it's named after WALL-E.

Scanning electron microscopy images of a classic octet lattice and topologically optimized, isotropic oblate and quasi-spherical octahedral lattice built with a projection micro-stereolithography ...

The V-shaped robots, called Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorers (or BILL-E), resemble miniature arms.

Scanning electron microscopy images of a classic octet lattice and topologically optimized, isotropic oblate and quasi-spherical octahedral lattice built with a projection micro-stereolithography ...

The bots are called BILL-E, Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer, and they could one day build habitats on the moon or construct aircraft all form small voxel components.

Researchers have designed a new class of 3D-printed lattice structures that combine light weight and high stiffness, despite breaking a rule previously thought to be required to exhibit such ...