As I travel around the USA exploring 3D printing and 3D design, I’m meeting a fair number of entrepreneurs who are building robots, enabled by tools that didn’t exist just a few short years ago.

Joris Laarman has created a free-standing 3D printing robot that creates beautiful metal sculptures with the graceful brush strokes of an artist. You may remember Laarman.

Robots will also be able to 3D model free space to position objects without collision in constrained environments. PIXMAP is just the latest entry in a new category of affordable 3D sensing.

The goal was not only to design robots that could walk right off the printer, with the addition of an air power source but also to do so with flexible, soft materials. “These robots are not ...

MIT CSAIL researchers have developed a new way to 3D-print robots which make the devices less prone to damage -- by giving them soft skins. ... (UAVs) by keeping them free from damage for longer.

But MX3D's robots aren't anything like desktop 3D printers. The bots look like giant mechanical arms that end in a torchlike apparatus. Instead of printing objects inside a box, the bots build ...

The robot, named Furoc, prints out furniture as a continuous line hundreds of meters long and can produce a chair in a variety of colors and designs in just 3 hours. Kooij says the method allows ...