3d printed robotics

You Can 3D Print Your Own Robotic Gripper!

Every cloud of a failed project has the silver lining on a new idea, right? And it’s good to learn this early. 13-year-old Aidan Leitch, who goes by XYZAidan and…

Bristol Researchers Create Handheld 3D Printed Robots That Assist & Correct Users 

Many of us are incredibly reliant on our electronics to do everything for us. If we could have personal robots brushing our teeth (probably not a stretch) and driving to…

Disney Research Lab Creates 3D Printed Robots that Emulate Animated Characters

As annual passholders to Disney, my family and I spend many weekends there getting more than our money’s worth of fun–as well as deep inspiration. While I lumber in the…

World’s Fastest Robotic Roach is Created Using 3D Printed Parts by Team at UC Berkeley

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it – and if you feel your skin crawl at just the thought of the darting of insects, you might be happy that you did….

UC Davis Students Build Robotic “Project Naughty Ball”

Hengjiu Kang, Yi Lu, and Yunan Song are students at the University of California Davis, juniors and seniors with a mighty impressive list of career-starting projects and internships. Kang is a…

3D Printed Robotic Fish Used for Studying Anxiety & Fear

Fish as pets are satisfying to us as we can create an entire ecosystem and watch them thrive under our nurturing. In the home, we can day in and day…

Turkey’s Onos Sfx Unveils Creepy 3D Printed Animated Skull, in Collaboration with 5 dakika

There’s some serious creative energy going on in Turkey as new and up-and-coming generations become engaged and dedicated to the maker movement. The founders of many of these startups aren’t…

15-Year-Old 3D Prints Incredible Robot Capable of Picking Up and Moving Objects on Demand

Over the past year or so, we have covered stories involving the 3D printing of dozens of different robots. Robotics and 3D printing seem to go together like peanut butter…

Japanese Company 3D Prints ‘MAYUPO’ – The Worlds ‘Cutest’ Female Robot Companion

The future of robotics is one which many people love to dream about. This has been going on for decades, as we move closer and closer to a day when…

Istanbul Engineer Develops Modular 3D Printed Robot for Full-Service Platform or Push Toy

The combination of 3D printing and electronics often leads to technological marvels on all levels, and certainly allows today’s makers a wide range of latitude — along with functionality and…

3D Printed BionicANTS & eMotionButterflies Work & Communicate Together

Taking all those sci-fi stories of robot armies to the next — and more realistic level — Festo has created one on the formicidae level with the BionicANTS, as well as…

Meet MobBob – The 3D Printed Robot, Controlled with an Intuitive Smartphone Body

We’ve said it once and we will say it again and again: “3D printing and robotics are meant for each other.” The two technologies go hand in hand, with 3D…

RoboSavvy’s Amazing New 3D Printed Humanoid Robot Utilizes Oculus Rift and a Segway for Control

I have said it once, and I’ll say it again. 3D printing and robots will continue their inevitable convergence, leading to completely custom robots which can perform virtually any human-like…

Researchers 3D Print MicroSwimmers & BioRobots to Carry Cargo Inside Human Body, Fueled by Cells

As humans, and especially Americans in general, we like to come out big and bold with concepts, products, and splashy success that gets painted all over the headlines. That’s what…

Yale OpenHand Aims to Create a Simplified Design to Spur Innovation for 3D Printed Robotic Hands

There have been a few notable projects intent on developing affordable and open-source robotic hands, but when Yale University takes on the problem, you can expect some startling results and…

3D Printed Robot that Tutors, DJs & Protects Home Launches on Kickstarter for $499

He sees. He listens. He understands. With a Kickstarter campaign hoping to raise $10K, and halfway through its launch, the XLR-ONE Personal Robot Companion is gaining ground toward fruition steadily…

ORIGIBOT: 3D Printed and WebRTC-Enabled Telepresence Robot to Launch Tomorrow on Indiegogo

The ORIGIBOT, a fully robotic platform which connects with an Android tablet or phone via a free app built by Origin Robotics, Inc., is “a complete telepresence solution.” So what…

The Swarmscapers: Students Create 3D Printing Robots Capable of Building in Outlying Areas

Imagine a reality of 3D printing robots, in a community unto themselves, diligently working in unpredictable temperatures and conditions, strong and steady — just taking care of business. Efficiently. Perfectly….

OSU Student Reinvents The Wheel: Robotic 3D printed transforming wheel

Carter Hurd has been building robots since he was in middle school. His experience and passion for tinkering with and building out complete electronic devices has only grown, and he…

Norwegian Robotics Team Designs 3D Printed, Self-Learning Robots

A research team at the Robotics and Intelligent Systems laboratory at the University of Oslo’s Department of Informatics is in the process of designing and programming 3D printed robots that…

Instructables Designer Builds 3D Printed ‘Walkerbot’ Featuring Arduino Software and 4 Pencil Legs

Robots and science fiction fantasy have gone hand in hand throughout the years, with most of our connections to robots coming from a classic movie or TV show. An aspiration of man…

High School Robotics Club Creates 3D Printed Exoskeleton For Kids with Cerebral Palsy

When I sit down and think of where humanity is going, I see a world afflicted by wars, religious intolerance, and political unrest. There are terrible things going on all…

FAPS to Begin 3D Printing Artificial Muscles With Help of Optomec AerosolJet Printer

Imagine a time when we have robotics which are able to move like human beings, with actual movements which are dictated by muscles similar to our own. Imagine a time…

Disney Research Creates Tools For Designing Complex Mechanical 3D Printable Models

There is little doubt in my mind that one day, probably not very far off, we will all have the ability to 3D print robotics and other forms of machinery…