Building a robot?
Until recently, designing and fabricating robotic devices required access to expensive milling machines, lathes, drill presses and other complex hard metal cutting, boring and industrial bending tools.
Today, ready access to low-cost 3D printing, laser cutters, and other advances in manufacturing technology is ushering in the new age of “soft robotics” which is based on fabrication principles drawn from conventional rigid robot design applied to a new generation of pliable materials.