From the register:
"Our goal is to develop technology that enables anyone to manufacture
their own customized robot. This is truly a game changer," said Professor
Vijay Kumar, who is leading the team from the University of Pennsylvania,
in a statement. "It could allow for the rapid design and manufacture of
customized goods, and change the way we teach science and technology in
high schools."
(...)
Dubbed "An Expedition in Computing for Compiling Printable Programmable
Machines," the goal for the team from Harvard, Penn State and MIT is to
allow anyone to design and customize a robot design to suit a variety
of household purposes. They envisage local 3D printing workshops, where
anyone could come in, pick an off the shelf robot design, customize it
on-screen to suit the task at hand and then have it printed and assembled
in the shop for pickup or delivery.
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