Ball has been at the technological forefront of stone sculpture for decades. He has a big studio in Brooklyn and employs a team of assistants. To make “Buddha,” they created a digital scan of the ...

As an undergraduate student, Yufeng Chi (B.S.'23 EECS) was captivated by humanoid and legged robots. Eager to learn more, he ...

3d printing; Scientists create robots that take their first steps straight out of the 3D printer By sharing their designs, the Edinburgh engineers hope to spark a new wave of innovation in soft ...

Participants interacted with the robot, then rated its recommendation for avocado toast. “Both male and female customers responded similarly to both the male and female robot designs,” Peng said. “For ...

Using this technique, they also designed and printed a soft robot combining hard magnetic materials with superparamagnetic materials. Their research, published in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems ...

Move over, Ikea: Robot-knit furniture transforms from 2D to 3D With a little clever design, some fabric, and lightweight panels, these objects transform from 2D to 3D without any tools Sapna Tayal ...

The process begins with a text-to-3D generative model, which creates a 3D physical design of the robot’s body based on the user’s description. This basic body design is then converted into a moving ...

Kid Cosmo’s head is enormous, as robot heads go. The primary nonhuman hero of the film “The Electric State” (on Netflix March 14), Cosmo has a bright yellow globe of a head the size and ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

Key to Neo Gamma's approachable design is its beige bodysuit, 3D-knitted in one piece to conform to its humanoid, bipedal body and ensure safer, gentler interactions with humans without impeding ...

Second, a bio-inspired teardrop shape was utilized in the design to minimize resistance as the robot moves within the body, with the design process supported by finite element analysis, regression ...