Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer(newatlas.com)

27 pointsby Brajeshwarano passado3 comments

Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer

https://newatlas.com/robotics/3d-printed-soft-robot-walks/

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The walk cycle is really cool, but it needs to be (manually) attached to compressed air. The video[1] saying it walks "autonomously out of the printer" is nowhere near the truth.

1. https://vimeo.com/1057922438/d0713f3f35

alkzano passado

what really caught my eye is the 3d printer itself, took me a while to find the repo for it, so here it is: https://github.com/The-Soft-Robotics-Forum/flex-printer

tempodoxano passado

An uncanny reminder of the Universal Constructor in the first Deus Ex.