{"id":119332,"date":"2021-02-08T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/mit-is-building-a-one-stop-shop-for-3d-printing-robots"},"modified":"2021-02-08T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:25:07","slug":"mit-is-building-a-one-stop-shop-for-3d-printing-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/mit-is-building-a-one-stop-shop-for-3d-printing-robots","title":{"rendered":"MIT is building a \u2018one-stop shop\u2019 for 3D-printing robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-is-building-a-one-stop-shop-for-3d-printing-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additive manufacturing has proven an ideal solution for certain tasks, but the technology still lacks more traditional methods in a number of categories. One of the biggest is the requirement for post-printing assembly. 3D printers can create extremely complex components, but an outside party (be it human or machine) is required to put them together.<\/p>\n<p>MIT\u2019s CSAIL department this week <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2021\/fabricating-fully-functional-drones-0208\">showcased \u201cLaserFactory,\u201d<\/a> a new project that attempts to develop robotics, drones and other machines than can be fabricated as part of a \u201cone-stop shop.\u201d The system is comprised of a software kit and hardware platform designed to create structures and assemble circuitry and sensors for the machine.<\/p>\n<p>A more fully realized version of the project will be showcased at an event in May, but the team is pulling back the curtain a bit to show what the concept looks like in practice. Here\u2019s a breakdown from CSAIL\u2019s page:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additive manufacturing has proven an ideal solution for certain tasks, but the technology still lacks more traditional methods in a number of categories. One of the biggest is the requirement for post-printing assembly. 3D printers can create extremely complex components, but an outside party (be it human or machine) is required to put them together. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}