From the editors of Machine Design magazine - this 17-page guide gives you a basic understanding of the 3D printing process and a checklist to help identify the best 3D-Printing process for your application.
A brand-new robot called the Touch Robot uses direct-drive motors, software algorithms, and cable-based actuators to finish and polish aerospace and other parts.
Now on loan to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Dr. Gill Pratt is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Olin College in Needham, Mass.
Gill Pratt.When he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leg ...
This inexpensive powerline-inspection bot is made of two arms that a motor opens and closes like scissors to scoot the robot along. The arms were 3D printed on a low-cost machine.Low-cost robots are an emerging breed of homemade, consumer, and li...
Tuesday, November 12, German rock band "Compressorhead" performed for crowds in Union Square, NYC. The three band members (Fingers, Bones, and Stickboy) are 5 feet tall and made from scrap metal. Their function is made possible by...
A team of four mechanical engineering students from the University of Pennsylvania have won the 2013 Dyson Award competition, along with a $48,000 donation for their development of Titan Arm, a powered upper-body exoskeleton. An additiona...
Boston Dynamics Corp. (Waltham, Mass.) recently completed field testing WildCat, a four-legged motorized robot. The company, which receives funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), builds robots that mimic animals...
New research from Georgia Institute of Technology shows that when given the choice between robots with a human appearance, a mix of human and robotic appearance, or a strictly robotic appearance, 60% of older adults want robots with human...
Argo Medical Technologies (Marlborough, Mass.), will partner with Yaskawa Electric Corp. (Waukegan, Ill.) to expand distribution of Argo’s ReWalk exoskeleton device into Asia. Argo’s exoskeleton, which consists of an exterior bionic syste...
Subcomponents for the RRM module’s wire-cutting tool prototype were made with SLS. On the final RRM module, inset, the SLS tool frame is replaced with a metal version.
Engineers at NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), St. Hubert, Quebec, r...
