Swarm of Tiny ‘Minibuilder’ Robots Can 3D Print Giant ... Once the foundation is in place, the smaller Grip Robot clamps onto the foundation layers and extends the structure higher with 3D ...

“If you want to do a quick test print with a small 3D printer, you can easily do 10 of them in a day. With this, even a single test is a big process. For example, the dome that we created is ...

Robot 3D printing in action. Credit: Roland Snooks Robots have been used in architecture since the 1980s in Japan. But that use was more about efficient production than design ingenuity.

The structure took 14 hours to print in total, creating a mould into which concrete is poured. System can 3-D print an entire building by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on YouTube ...