Fraunhofer are building an army of robot spiders using 3d printing technology In an attempt to take over the world to function in dangerous or difficult terrain
This is extremely cool. The proliferation of 3D printers is the first step toward them becoming cheaper.
Submitted by brainwipe on Mon, 2011-11-07 20:01
yeah they don't state what machine they used but they mention it's selective laser sintering so it sounds pretty high end probably something like a zcorp or a stratsys
there's still a long way to go before 3d printers make it out of the enthusiast arena but it's getting more and more use and the technology is getting more flexible in what it can acomplish
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This is extremely cool. The proliferation of 3D printers is the first step toward them becoming cheaper.
yeah they don't state what machine they used but they mention it's selective laser sintering so it sounds pretty high end probably something like a zcorp or a stratsys
there's still a long way to go before 3d printers make it out of the enthusiast arena but it's getting more and more use and the technology is getting more flexible in what it can acomplish