While there are many potential uses for soft-bodied robots, the things are still typically only built in small experimental batches. Scottish scientists are out to change that, with a ...

Building a humanoid robot used to be the kind of thing reserved for well-funded labs and companies with serious budgets. Now, if you have a 3D printer, some technical skills, and about $2,500 to spend ...

FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more scientists. FLUID, an open-source, ...

The day is coming when you may walk past a robot and have no idea it was a robot. Over years of engineering, we've given robots skeletons, brains, senses, and even a nervous system. Muscles have ...

Fan-built Star Wars props show how maker electronics, 3D printing, and robotics can turn static replicas into projects that are realistic-looking or just plain real. What props were built using SBCs, ...

(a) Schematic of the multi-material one-step printing process, demonstrating the sequential switching of three different resin tanks during printing to achieve composite structures in a single step.