Your average 3D printer is just a nozzle shooting out hot  plastic while being moved around by a precise robotic mechanism.

We've seen cool 3D printers before, and we're definitely no strangers to robots, but this is the first 3D-printed soft robot we've ever seen capable of walking off its own assembly line.

The system is highly tunable, and apparently can train a robot new behavior on a single PC. These behaviors can be tweaked, and essentially allow the mostly 3D-printed robot to handle itself in ...

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material. Imagine a ...

Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

SAEKI, by contrast, has developed a robot incorporating a 3D printer that can produced the same molds from recyclable material. The mold can be printed and delivered to the construction site far ...

What gives him his edge? Frank is a robot, and he’s building his houses using 3D printing technology. Trevor Ragno is Frank’s boss. Ragno is the head of construction and building technology ...

unnamed robot, which measures just 9.4 millimeters across and weighs 21 milligrams—less than a single grain of white rice. The bot owes its weightlessness to its 3D-printed frame, which consists ...