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Here’s one I made earlier (Image: Hall/Army Research Laboratory)
AN INSECT made of black plastic and as big as my hand scuttles across the tabletop, scraping its feet along the surface. Apart from three motors and some short lengths of wire, every piece of the robot emerged from a 3D printer. It is just one of the robots to crawl, fly and roll out of printers in homes and labs around the world.
This insectbot is the handiwork of Minnesota-based hobbyist Karl Rutz who printed it at home on a…
