Researchers from The NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Tübingen and Stuttgart, Germany, have designed and 3D printed an open-sourced quadruped robot dog called the ‘Solo 8.’ When compared to the price tag on Boston Dynamics the automated pooch relatively low cost and is easy and […]
MIT CSAIL startup Inkbit raises $12M in Stratasys and DSM Venturing led funding round
Award winning 3D printer OEM Stratasys and DSM Venturing, the venture capital arm of Royal DSM, have led a $12 million funding round for Massachusetts-based startup Inkbit. Founded in 2017 as a spinout of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, Inkbit has developed a multimaterial inkjet 3D printer. In addition to Stratasys and […]
“Virtually impossible” mechanisms realized by MIT 3D printed actuator design
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a system to design and 3D print complex actuators. The toolkit, presented in the study published in Science Advances, consists of multi-objective topology optimization software for design synthesis and multi-material drop-on-demand 3D printing for the fabrication of robotic actuators. The system enables the manufacture of […]