While the explosion in the popularity of consumer 3D printers has been enabled by cheaper and cheaper devices, they’re still beyond the reach of the average university student. But students at ...

The first all-in-one desktop 3D printer, scanner, copier, and fax machine is (supposedly, almost) upon us, hitting Kickstarter on September 4th. AIO Robotics hasn’t released anything more than a ...

Steampunk extraordinaire [Jake von Slatt] has released his latest creation. This time he’s built a Wimshurst machine from mostly 3D printed parts. The Wimshurst machine is an electrostatic generator ...

If you find 3D printers to be just a little too coldly futuristic, this contraption might be more to your liking. Scientists from Cornell University have created a machine that knits solid 3D objects ...

Would you get a tattoo from a 3D printer? The 3D X Tattoo Machine is a new 3D printer that is able to produce tattoos on skin, puncturing the skin at around 150 times per second. The video posted ...

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So, you’ve just installed a robot in your plant to automate your entire process. In terms of bringing your process to the state of modern technology, that should be it. But David Dechow, a 3D machine ...

This paper presents a new manufacturing and control paradigm for developing soft ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) actuators for soft robotics applications. First, an additive manufacturing method ...