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Google Subsidiary 3D Printing Legs for Humanoid Robot

By atesmeh | August 18, 2015

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Google subsidiary, Boston Dynamics is developing a humanoid named Atlas and it’s using 3D printing to create the robot’s streamlined legs. The new limbs, which haven’t been tested, “utilize a lattice like structure with many of the important components, such as the hydraulics, printed right into the actual structure,” according to 3DPrint.com. The legs will have to be mighty powerful, as the robot will stand about 6 feet 2 inches tall and weigh 344 pounds. With its current legs, which are attached by nuts and bolts, Atlas can run through terrain such as wooded areas.

Read more: Top 5 Reasons to Integrate 3D Printing into Your Production Development Lifecycle

In other 3D printing news, vehicle manufacturer after sales divisions consulting firm Carlisle & Company, whose clients include Ford, General Motors, Caterpillar, and Daimler trucks, believes that car dealerships could someday use 3D printers to develop auto parts onsite. Also, a movement known as the Victoria Hand Project is using 3D printing to create prosthetics for people in developing countries. The project has set up centers for printing and aid in Guatemala and Nepal.

Google’s Boston Dynamics Is 3D Printing Streamlined Legs For Their Humanoid Robot, Atlas

We are approaching an age where robots will transform virtually every part of our society. Over the next decade or two the robotics industry will flourish as man looks towards technology for help in doing …
Read more at 3dprint »

3D Printing Will Change Auto Industry, From Manufacturers to Dealers

Consulting firm Carlisle & Co. predicts car dealerships may someday use their own 3D printers to make auto parts onsite. That raises a variety of issues. One of them: Who would need parts suppliers? …
Read more at Wards Auto »

3D printing is bringing prosthetics to people in developing countries

The Victoria Hand Project uses 3D printing technology to produce upper-limb prosthetics for people in developing countries. That’s where 80 percent of people who need prosthetic care live …
Read more at www.gizmoeditor.com »

Chinese surgeon uses 3D printing to map out difficult heart surgery http://t.co/I3TM2fzaiL http://t.co/VNxUbWw9K4

— China Daily USA (@ChinaDailyUSA) 2015-08-18T15:50:26Z



Filed Under: 3D printing • additive manufacturing • stereolithography, Industrial automation

 

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