When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

My tour ends where it began, among the plastic robots and phone cases ... plants quickly deployed in disaster zones, printing out anything from arm splints to tent stakes. In the future, suggests ...

Explore the innovative 3D-printed robot that walks and climbs without electronics, thanks to pneumatic pressure and advanced design.

FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more scientists. FLUID, an open ...

Led by postdoctoral scholar Yichen Zhai in Tolley’s research group at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, the team adapted a 3D printing technique that they used previously to build an ...

Credit: David Baillot/University of California San Diego/Cover Images Scientists in the United States have developed a walking robot ... a 3D-printing technique previously used to create a gripper ...

adapted a 3D printing technique that they used previously to build an electronics-free gripper. Their efforts led to the fabrication of a six-legged robot. "We have taken a giant leap forward with ...

It was 3D-printed in one continuous 58-hour step, composed of a single piece of soft and flexible thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). Oh yes, and it has six legs.

Scientists have taken advantage of that dual nature in a clever new robotic gripper designed for handling fragile items. Created by Assoc. Prof. Nick Gravish and colleagues at UC San Diego ...

They can also retract to bring objects closer to the robot arm the gripper is mounted on. The researchers had already worked with measuring tape as part of a grant from the National Science ...

unnamed robot, which measures just 9.4 millimeters across and weighs 21 milligrams—less than a single grain of white rice. The bot owes its weightlessness to its 3D-printed frame, which consists ...