Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawl.

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“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. Be prepare… ...

Researchers at Boston University have enabled a 3D-printing robot to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to further the process of creating advanced materials. In a project for the US Army ...

Computing News: MIT researchers have developed a new tiny robot that is able to change its shape to almost anything, using magnets to mimic molecules that fold themse ...

An MIT team is developing a robot that has the potential to become ... made up of a chain of tiny modules each containing a new type of motor that can be used to form the chain into various shapes.

The first 3D-printed biodegradable seed robot, able to change shape in response to humidity The seeds of the South African geranium inspired the realization of the prototype.

Explore the innovative non-planar robotic 3D printing method developed by ETH Zurich's Chair of Digital Construction ... Double-Curved Shapes Through Non-planar 3D Printing" 19 Mar 2024.

Scientists unveil shape-shifting robot built for disaster response: ... They used 3D printing to build the modular mesh, which, with its six segments, can traverse flat ground and pipes.

A team of researchers has developed an impressive shape-shifting robot that could one day find itself on a mission to Mars. ... morphing from 2D triangles into almost any 3D object.

The first I-Seed is inspired by the seed structure of a South African geranium, the Pelargonium appendiculatum, whose ability to change shape in reaction to variations in humidity in the surrounding ...