3D-printed soft mesh robots Structures can contract, reshape and grab objects while floating on water Date: January 23, 2019 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Researchers have ...

Materials are 2D textures overlaid on the 3D meshes like a skin. And NVIDIA 3D MoMa’s estimate of how the scene is lit allows creators to later modify the lighting on the objects," NVIDIA explains.

Meshes can be used for engineering purposes — .stl files are meshes after all, and are practically synonymous with 3D printing — but a mesh cannot be modified in the the same ways a CAD file can.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed pliable 3D-printed mesh materials for medical applications such as knee and ankle braces.