Harvard & MIT create first self-assembling robots – the first real Transformers

Harvard & MIT create first self-assembling robots – the first real Transformers
The engineers print some conductive channels onto these sheets, and then use a laser machining system to create the necessary origami fold pattern. Each hinge contains an embedded circuit that, when instructed by a microcontroller, produces heat, which …
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Bozeman Fly Fishing: The Making of a Reel
to ready the eighteen machined parts China for assembly. Some parts are ready for assembly immediately following machining. Nine of the finished components require anodizing, a process which uses increases thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface …
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SIFCO Industries, Inc. (“SIFCO”) Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2014 Financial
The services include forging, heat-treating, coating welding, machining and selective plating. The products include forged components (both conventional and precision), machined forged parts, other machined metal components as well as turbine engine …
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