Developed by engineers at Duke University, Text2Robot is a novel computational robot design framework that allows anyone to ...

The idea behind the system is partly to take advantage of the rapid prototyping afforded by 3D printers, but mainly it’s to change how the design work is done. To make a robot, the body geometry ...

We wonder if this would be better if you had a SCARA arm sitting next to a 3D printer, although we admit that might be less flexible in theory. Not that the idea of using two robots to print is ...

Because the researchers 3D printed the body of the soft actuator using a common rubber, the robots cost about $3 in materials, excluding the small motor that drives the actuator’s shape change. That ...