While there are many potential uses for soft-bodied robots, the things are still typically only built in small experimental ...

Fully 3D-printed and controlled via a locally run large language model (LLM) chatbot, the robot can be assembled ... how far or how fast the motors turn, small tuning knobs called trimmer ...

Four of the General Robotics Lab's 3D-printed walking ... Text2Robot: Evolutionary Robot Design from Text Descriptions Once the best model is chosen by the algorithm, it's printed 3-D, and the ...

Researchers in California have created an incredibly small robot that needs no battery or ... The bot owes its weightlessness to its 3D-printed frame, which consists of white or clear ...

"Soft robotics holds promise for many applications, but it is challenging to design the actuators that drive the motion of soft robots on a small scale ... multi-material 3D printing technologies ...

What makes the hand even more special is that it was printed using an entirely new 3D ... model its construction.) In addition to the hand, they also printed a robotic heart, a six-legged robot ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Markus Nemitz has received a $599,815 award from the National Science Foundation to advance the development of low-cost 3D-printed robots, fleets of ...

A newly-developed 3D ... robots and industrial tools, as well as wind turbines. The researchers built on a process called two-photon polymerization, which can produce high resolution objects as ...

To automate the process, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have ...

“Our vision is to transform the manufacturing process by combining robotics with 3D printing ... model is an as-a-service concept – it envisages customers booking time with its robots rather ...

It’s a popular 3D-printing strategy in the medical field, specifically for creating accurate anatomical models of patients’ bodies, but in this novel application, it allows a soft robot to ...

Craig Pettit, president of MRB Robotics, monitors a 3D printer as it adds a layer of concrete to a future self-storage facility in Payne Springs.(Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer) Hugo and ...