Explore 3D printing in robotics for custom, lightweight parts, rapid prototyping, and on-demand spare components.

A robot has been developed that can walk without electronics, powered solely by a cartridge of compressed gas. Designed by researchers at the Bioinspired Robotics Laboratory at the University of ...

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 Erica ...

On a dusty test site in Australia, a spider-like robot is quietly rewriting the rules of construction, extruding walls in ...

Robots are cool. Robots you build yourself are cooler, especially ones that use stuff you have lying around already. Snoopy is a new open-source robot that uses an Arduino as a brain but with a 3D ...

Imagine a cocktail party full of 3D-printed, humanoid robots listening and talking to each other. That seemingly sci-fi scene is the goal of an augmented listening laboratory. With precise control ...

Applications for 3D printing/additive manufacturing has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade—particularly for its use to produce production- and assembly-ready parts, not just prototypes.

Researchers in California have created an incredibly small robot that needs no battery or wired power supply to zip through the air. Instead, it uses magnets to fly. A magnetic field produced by an ...

Developers in Georgetown, Texas are using robot 3D-printing technology to fight the housing shortage, creating the world’s largest 3D-printed neighborhood. Called Wolf Ranch, the community of three- ...

With a slash of a golden ribbon, Detroit’s first 3D-printed house is finally ready to hit the real estate market. The 988-square-foot, two-bedroom house at 1444 Sheridan in Detroit’s Islandview ...

Nonprofit Citizen Robotics says it has built Detroit's first 3D printed home. The price of the two-bedroom house is capped at $224,500. See inside the 988-square-foot unit, complete with printed walls ...