Intel Will Let You 3D-Print Your Own Robot This Year

By Leslie Horn

Have a 3D printer? Or at least access to one? You’re pretty much halfway there. The at-home robot maker will be buyable online at 21stCenturyRobot.com later this year. It will include the designs for the hardware that you can make if you have a 3D printer you can use. It will also give you the moving parts you can’t print, like motors and wires and processors and batteries. The cost is relatively low because Re/Code says it runs on Intel Edison—a cheap computer on a chip. If it were fitted with a better brain, like say an i5 processor, it would run more like

Original Source: http://recode.net/2014/05/28/heeeeeeres-jimmy-intels-3-d-printed-robot-will-hit-the-market-later-this-year/

 
 
 

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