robots

This week I was looking for a cool toy to 3D print for my nephew and settled on looking for a fun robot action figure. I knew that there were…

The jury is generally a pretty hard crowd to impress, and rightly so, as years, lives, and sums hang in the balance with what can sometimes result in severe judgment and…

The older I get, the more resentful I feel each time I hear a story about some young person making good. I’ve long left behind the age by which Alexander…

Robotics has become one of the most common forms of advanced technology in the world, and just about everyone in the developed world uses them daily. Many of us probably…

Ever since their first Da Vinci 3D printer took home multiple industry prizes, including a CES 2014 Editors’ Choice Award, XYZprinting has continued to pump out new models of their…

The year is 2015 and 3D printed robots have begun to evolve to a point where they are taking over the world! OK, maybe we aren’t quite there yet. We…

We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again, 3D printing and robotics continue to converge upon one another at a rapid rate. 3D printing has become a go-to solution…

Will we one day in the future watch basketball games played by robots? Who needs a Lebron James on their team, when a 3D printed basketball player could jump 42…

It was just last week that Bold Machines released the design files for the Brooklyn Bridge Robot which was their latest character designed for the “Margo” feature film.  Margo was a…

Carter Hurd is on the way to earning a degree in mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, where he’s a teaching assistant for the Fundamentals of Engineering Honors program. He works with…

Sebastian Morales Prado is a mechanical engineer in Chicago who, as he says, works to merge science and art. A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Morales now works…

Did you know that your kitchen countertop is probably dirtier that your toilet seat? It’s true, and studies have shown that there is more E. coli in your kitchen sink…

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…

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. 3D printing and robotics will continue to converge in the coming years, leading to mass customization of robotic devices which we…

As new applications emerge for 3D printing, the market will prosper. That’s the general ideology of many companies and their executives with whom I have spoken at CES this week….

We have seen 3D printing and robotics go hand in hand quite a bit lately. Whether it is the 3D printing of robotic parts, or robots that do the actual…

Moving in a synchronized ballet of 3D printed parts, Zortrax brings their flagship product to market with a real showstopper: their own 3D printed robots. Catering to designers and engineers, they…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, with the help of 3D printing, have developed a material that can switch between hard and soft. The material is described in a paper in…