Berkeley Humanoid Lite is an open-source, budget-friendly humanoid robot created by UC Berkeley researchers to make robotics research easier for everyone. It’s a customizable, 3D-printed robot designed for researchers, teachers, and hobbyists. Unlike expensive, closed-source commercial robots (often over $100,000), it costs less than $5,000 by using common parts and desktop 3D printers.
This 3D-printed typewriter, made by an inventor named Toast, is a really interesting project, and not in the way you’d expect. Unlike regular typewriters, it skips the usual keyboard and ink ribbon. Instead, it uses a rotary wheel to pick letters, where you select a character and press a key straight down to stamp it onto paper using carbon paper for ink.
Hugging Face, a company known for its AI developer tools, released the SO-101, a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm through its robotics group, LeRobot, working with partners like The Robot Studio, WowRobo, Seeed Studio, and PartaBot. Simply put, it’s a big move forward to make robotics accessible for everyone, starting at just $100.
There are metal 3D printers, and then eufyMake’s UV Printer E1, the world’s first 3D-texture UV printer. What does this mean? It uses UV-curable ink that hardens instantly under ultraviolet light, allowing it to print vibrant, full-color designs with tactile 3D textures up to 5mm high on a wide variety of surfaces.
The first 3D-printed Starbucks in the US opened near SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Brownsville, Texas, at 2491 Boca Chica Boulevard. This is a 1,400-square-foot, drive-thru and walk-up-only location with no indoor seating. Why? It’s designed for quick service, catering to the area’s growing traffic near the base.
JR West, a train company in Japan, teamed up with Serendix, a company specializing in 3D-printed construction, to build the world’s first 3D-printed train station at Hatsushima Station in Arida City, Wakayama Prefecture.
Corridor Digital 3D-printed every frame in this amazing short film that you’re about to watch. It follows a simple narrative: a character wakes up, gets out of bed, and walks outside, only to encounter a surreal twist where his dog encounters a seemingly evil robot vacuum.
Photo credit: Ioana Patringenaru | UCSD
Researchers at UC San Diego’s Bioinspired Robotics Laboratory have developed a 3D-printed robot that can walk straight off the printer without any electronic components, inspired by biological systems, where movement often happens without complex computation.
LTS Design unveils his 3D-printed multi dimension roller coaster, and so far, this is the most impressive one we’ve seen yet. It may look complex, and right fully so, as the process begins with designing the coaster, often in software like SOLIDWORKS, Fusion 360, or NoLimits 2 (a roller coaster simulator), before slicing the digital model into printable parts using programs like Cura.
