{"id":138287,"date":"2022-04-18T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/how-to-print-a-robot-from-scratch-combining-liquids-solids-could-lead-to-faster-more-flexible-3d-creations"},"modified":"2022-04-18T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:03:13","slug":"how-to-print-a-robot-from-scratch-combining-liquids-solids-could-lead-to-faster-more-flexible-3d-creations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/how-to-print-a-robot-from-scratch-combining-liquids-solids-could-lead-to-faster-more-flexible-3d-creations","title":{"rendered":"How to print a robot from scratch: Combining liquids, solids could lead to faster, more flexible 3D creations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-print-a-robot-from-scratch-combining-liquids-solids-could-lead-to-faster-more-flexible-3d-creations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a future in which you could 3D-print an entire robot or stretchy, electronic medical device with the press of a button\u2014no tedious hours spent assembling parts by hand.<\/p>\n<p>That possibility may be closer than ever thanks to a recent advancement in 3D-printing technology led by engineers at CU Boulder. In a new study, the team lays out a strategy for using currently-available printers to create materials that meld solid and liquid components\u2014a tricky feat if you don\u2019t want your robot to collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a future where we could, for example, fabricate a complete system like a robot using this process,\u201d said Robert MacCurdy, senior author of the study and assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a future in which you could 3D-print an entire robot or stretchy, electronic medical device with the press of a button\u2014no tedious hours spent assembling parts by hand. That possibility may be closer than ever thanks to a recent advancement in 3D-printing technology led by engineers at CU Boulder. In a new study, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138287","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=138287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}