Scientists 3D print a robot that walks away when complete

You know what’s cooler than printing robot parts on a 3D printer? Printing the whole freaking robot.

Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory figured out how to hack a Stratasys 3D printer so that it not only prints the hard and flexible materials necessary for mobile robots, but also simultaneously adds in fluid to create working hydraulics, giving them the ability to print an entire, working hydraulic-actuated robot in one 3D print pass. 

The robot can even get up and walk away from the printer, after an external motor and battery is added. Read more...