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Here’s one I made earlier (Image: Hall/Army Research Laboratory)
AN made of black plastic and as big as my hand scuttles across the , 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…
