“We were really surprised by the diversity of models people made,” Schulz told me. It took about 15-30 minutes to design a robot, a few hours to print it, then 30-90 minutes to assemble it.

Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of ...

Printable robots — those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers — have long been a topic of research in Computer Science labs at MIT. Now researchers introduce a new wrinkle ...

Meet Plen2, an adorably cute humanoid robot that's small enough to stand on your desk. This bot can bust a few moves, such as dancing and carrying small objects. It's also open source and 3D ...

Shutterstock Creating robots is hard. They require lots of design, expensive parts, plenty of computer coding, and much more in order to be effective. But what if they didn’t? What if anyone could ...

It’s not just cakes and cupcakes we can bake. We may soon be baking our own robots too! While Intel is working on robots you can print and assemble on your own, a group of researchers is working ...

All other parts that can’t be printed can be easily bought off-the-shelf from online stores. The robot’s 3D-printable parts can be reproduced with at least a 200 x 200 x 200 mm build space.

MAKI is a cute communication robot that can be assembled from 3D-printed parts and some off-the-shelf electronic components for less than US$500, making it an affordable platform for hobbyists and ...

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a new way to make soft, hydraulically-powered robots in one step using commercial 3D printers that can print solid ...

"Inkjet printing lets us have eight different print-heads deposit different materials adjacent to one another, all at the same time," MacCurdy explained. "It gives us very fine control of material ...

Printable robots — those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers — have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of ...