As I travel around the USA exploring 3D printing and 3D design, I’m meeting a fair number of entrepreneurs who are building robots, enabled by tools that didn’t exist just a few short years ago.

Sonair is using the 3D ultrasound sensors exclusively licenced from MiNaLab to enable autonomous robots to see and make the right decisions.

Although we've already seen 3D printers that can create full-size concrete structures, the huge size of the devices could make them difficult to install at construction sites. Singaporean ...

More information: Elgar Kanhere et al, Upgrading and extending the life cycle of soft robots with in situ free-form liquid three-dimensional printing, Science Robotics (2024).

One of humankind's most important senses for navigating our world is our ability to see in three dimensions (3D), so it makes sense to give our robots the same capability. But how we see may or may ...

You know what’s cooler than printing robot parts on a 3D printer? Printing the whole freaking robot. Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial ...

When you imagine robots, you probably aren’t picturing stretchy meshes that can float on water, but that’s exactly what researchers have developed. These soft structures are 3D printed and ...

And on the other side of the platform is the 3D printing robot. In the AR headset, the designer views the platform, the object, and the robot as seen by the camera but with the model he’s ...

When the robots of the future are set to extract minerals from other planets, they need to be both self-learning and self-repairing. Researchers at Oslo University have already succeeded in ...

That’s the problem this soldering robot solves. It’s a small, cheap, but still relatively capable soldering robot built out of a 3D printer.