{"id":39440,"date":"2016-04-06T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/prostheticknowledge-printable-hydraulics-3d\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:11:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:11:05","slug":"prostheticknowledge-printable-hydraulics-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/prostheticknowledge-printable-hydraulics-3d\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39440 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/prostheticknowledge-printable-hydraulics-3d\/attachment\/39441\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o57ur0Q7ud1qav3uso4_r1_540-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/prostheticknowledge-printable-hydraulics-3d\/attachment\/39442\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o57ur0Q7ud1qav3uso2_540-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/prostheticknowledge-printable-hydraulics-3d\/attachment\/39443\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o57ur0Q7ud1qav3uso1_540-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/prostheticknowledge-printable-hydraulics-3d\/attachment\/39444\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o57ur0Q7ud1qav3uso3_r1_540-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com\/post\/142351212171\">prostheticknowledge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>\nPrintable Hydraulics<\/h2>\n<p>3D printing method developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/\">MIT CSAIL<\/a> can print in both solid and liquid materials simulataneously, allowing to make a functional robot from one file &#8211; just add a motor and battery and it is ready to go:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-embed tmblr-full\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3EAMCqH31Vo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur approach, which we call \u2018printable hydraulics,\u2019 is a step<br \/>\ntowards the rapid fabrication of functional machines,\u201d says CSAIL<br \/>\nDirector Daniela Rus, who oversaw the project and co-wrote the paper.<br \/>\n\u201cAll you have to do is stick in a battery and motor, and you have a<br \/>\nrobot that can practically walk right out of the printer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate the concept, researchers 3-D printed a tiny six-legged<br \/>\n robot that can crawl via 12 hydraulic pumps embedded within its body.<br \/>\nThey also 3-D printed robotic parts that can be used on existing<br \/>\nplatforms, such as a soft rubber hand for the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.mit.edu\/watch\/meet-baxter-a-new-kind-of-industrial-robot-12638\/\">Baxter research robot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 For all of the progress in 3-D printing, liquids continue to be a big<br \/>\n hurdle. Printing liquids is a messy process, which means that most<br \/>\napproaches require an additional post-printing step such as melting it<br \/>\naway or having a human manually scrape it clean. That step makes it hard<br \/>\n for liquid-based methods to be employed for factory-scale<br \/>\nmanufacturing.With \u201cprintable hydraulics,\u201d an inkjet printer deposits individual<br \/>\ndroplets of material that are each 20 to 30 microns in diameter, or less<br \/>\n than half the width of a human hair. The printer proceeds<br \/>\nlayer-by-layer from the bottom up. For each layer, the printer deposits<br \/>\ndifferent materials in different parts, and then uses high-intensity UV<br \/>\nlight to solidify all of the materials (minus, of course, the liquids).<br \/>\nThe printer uses multiple materials, though at a more basic level each<br \/>\nlayer consist of a \u201cphotopolymer,\u201d which is a solid, and \u201ca non-curing<br \/>\nmaterial,\u201d which is a liquid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/first-3d-printed-robots-made-of-both-solids-and-liquids-0406\">More Here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>prostheticknowledge: Printable Hydraulics 3D printing method developed by MIT CSAIL can print in both solid and liquid materials simulataneously, allowing to make a functional robot from one file &#8211; just add a motor and battery and it is ready to go: \u201cOur approach, which we call \u2018printable hydraulics,\u2019 is a step towards the rapid fabrication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-ag8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39445,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions\/39445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}