The Caracol process includes a large-scale, robot-mounted, extrusion-based 3D printer compatible with a variety of materials including up to 40% fiber-filled polymers. Photo credit, all images: ...

While there are many potential uses for soft-bodied robots, the things are still typically only built in small experimental batches. Scottish scientists are out to change that, with a ...

Additive Engineering Solutions (AES) of Akron, Ohio — a company that has specialized for years in additive manufacturing of large polymer composite components — has now adopted a new method for 3D ...

Explore 3D printing in robotics for custom, lightweight parts, rapid prototyping, and on-demand spare components.

Never short of an innovative idea or two, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a new robotic system capable of 3D printing an entire building. The system involves a ...

A 3D printing farm in Brooklyn needed to scale up to handle large production runs and better compete with injection molding. Until recently, that would have required investing in more 3D printers and ...

When you want to build a large format 3D printer, you can’t just scale up the design of a desktop machine. In an excellent four-part build series (videos after the break), [Dr. D-Flo] takes us through ...

A firm focused on 3D printed concrete is getting ready to print its first major structures in the United States. Contour Crafting’s gantry-supported 3D concrete printing robot is set to print sometime ...

A spider-inspired robot named Charlotte could soon be printing buildings on the Moon using nothing but lunar dust. Built to ...