We have bought to you the most unimaginable robots which are 3D Printed.

Scarlett Johansson as a 3D printed Robot

Beautiful Scarlett who has been winning our hearts with her amazing roles in Avengers and Iron Man has been converted into a humanoid robot.Imagine waking up to Scarlett Johansson giving you breakfast and tea.

This fan of Scarlett was so obsessed with her that he turned it into a passion creating a 3D printed humanoid Robot. It took Ricky Ma almost 18 months and £34,000 (that’s nearly $50K USD) building his Scarlett Johansson cyborg. The humanoid is 70 percent 3D Printed and was born in the balcony of an apartment in Hong Kong.

As realistic her face is you will be transfixed by her facial expressions and verbal communication. When Ricky Ma says ” You are so beautiful”, she has that coy schoolgirl smile which we relate with Johansson and also responds with a giggle and a thank you.

The robot’s skin is made of silicone and her interior is all mechanics and electronics. She can deliver emotions and also speak up certain phrases. The creator thinks to invest more in the project to develop more advanced robots. Scarlett is put on a display with an elegant crop top and grey skirt.

Kengoro

Have you ever seen a robot do pushups without getting tired? Well, a team is from JSK Lab at the University of Tokyo have created Kengoro as a third robot along with Kenjero and Koshiro. This bio-machine has in all 108 motors and enough of gears, circuit boards, electric connections and a lot more.

As it had so many components the team had to think about cooling the robot and thus came up with a cooling mechanism and it’s the 3D printed element that allows for this sweating mechanism, to begin with, due to the varying levels of permeability allowed in the metal material working as microchannels for the fluid (water) to act as sweat when things get hot—ultimately cooling off Kengoro. Kengoro has a cooling system due to which he operates at completely different levels and thus can do pushups for continuously 11 minutes.

ZIZZY

ZIZZY is created with the motive to assist those who lack mobility or have a limited mobility. Michael Roybal  3D printed a robot who is capable of talking, manipulating food water and communication devices also displaying emotions.

The fascinating thing about ZIZZY is that the pneumatic artificial muscles are made with hollow bellows and made out of NinjaFlex. These 3D printed muscles are painted with fabric glue and MEK solvent and should be capable of holding 20 PSI without an issue.

InMoov Robot

InMoov is a fastest and first 3D Printed full upper torso robot created by French designer and sculptor Gael Langevin. He can even take selfies and play ‘Simon says’ with visitors. It has 100 components including the limbs, joints, and bone, the robot was printed in a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic material.

The InMoov project is being used for most of the good humanitarian projects like 3D printed an InMoov Explorer to take patients from the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital on a virtual visit of the London Zoo.

Xpider Robot

Xpider is a small programmable spider-shaped robot created with 26 different designs and has 40 3d Printed parts.With a cute ball shape, the robot can crawl and capture images. You can customize it and buy it on Thingiverse.Developed by the Beijing-based robotics startup Roboeve the robot is quite popular in the maker groups.

Sub1 Robot

Rubik’s cube challenge is a tough one but imagine someone solving it in less than a second. Yes, Sub1 the robot can solve the Rubiks cube in 1 second. This robot is described as having “a cube-holding frame, stepper motors, and USB-powered cameras that capture, in high resolution, the cube’s form.”

This robot has beat a 2014 record previously set by David Gilday and Mike Dobson, who created a robot that solved the Cube in 3.253 seconds. Now the lucky number appears to be 0.887 seconds (!) and has been set by German engineer Albert Beer. Beer plans to make a robot who can complete the challenge in too less time than this.

These are just a few examples of how 3D printing is changing the Robotics and what we can look forward to in the future from 3D Printing. The future may be all 3D printed and you definitely wouldn’t want to miss out so get a 3D printer right away and start exploring more about 3D Printing with Geeetech.

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Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed a robot which accurately mimics the gait and movement of a salamander. ‘Pleurobot’ consists of 3D printed bones and motorized joints, and could be used in the development of medical devices.

While X-rays are most commonly used to look at broken bones and other human bodily problems, the technology can also be used to learn about animals, potentially paving the way for radical new developments in robotics, medicine, and other fields. When a team of scientists from EPFL’s Biorobotics Laboratory recently put a live salamander under an X-ray, they weren’t sizing it up for a new leg brace. Instead, they wanted to observe the motion of the ancient amphibian’s skeleton in order to better understand how it moves, enabling them to build a realistic robotic version of the creature and learn a thing or two about the evolution of vertebrate locomotion at the same time.

The partially 3D printed salamander robot consists of 3D printed bones, motorized joints, and a “nervous system” made up of electronic circuitry. A fun project then, but the researchers also believe the robot to be more biomimetically realistic than any other robo-salamanders out there. And no, before you ask, that’s not an insignificant achievement: the EPFL team, led by Prof. Auke Ijspeert, had actually developed a number of realistic salamander robots before Pleurobot, but none of those previous models were designed with close reference to the 3D motion of the creature’s skeleton.

Pleurobot, then, is a salamander robot like no other. By capturing X-ray videos of a real, living Pleurodeles waltl from the top and side, tracking 64 individual points on its skeleton, the scientists were able to observe the amphibian’s skeletal motions while it made different kinds of movement on the ground and in water. By mimicking those skeletal movements, the 3D printed robot is able to walk and swim in much the same way as its living counterpart. “What is new is really our approach to building Pleurobot,” Ijspeert explained. “It involves striking a balance between designing a simplified bone structure and replicating the salamander’s gait in three dimensions.”

Although directly inspired by the skeletal movement of the salamander, Pleurobot actually contains fewer “bones” than the real creature, with 27 motors and 11 segments making up entire spinal section. The salamander, on the other hand, has 40 vertebrae and multiple joints able to move different directions. Despite being anatomically simpler than its organic inspiration, however, the 3D printed robot actually contains the minimum number of segments required to accurate replicate the motion of the salamander.

It has been demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the salamander’s spinal cord determines whether it walks, crawls, or swims, but by observing and robotically replicating the movements of the creature, Ijspeert and co can now learn more about how exactly the spinal cord controls bodily movement—not just in the salamander, but in humans too. With this knowledge, the EPFL scientists and their peers may be able to develop future therapies and neuroprosthetic devices for amputees and paraplegic patients.

“Animal locomotion is an inherently complex process,” said Kostas Karakasilliotis, designer of the early versions of the Pleurobot. “Modern tools like cineradiography, 3D printing, and fast computing help us draw closer and closer to understanding and replicating it.”

Originally Posted in 3ders> Printing Application.