Scientists Will Begin 3D Printing Dinosaur Robots

Researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have been hard at work on a mission to create 3D-printed dinosaur robots. It may sound crazy, but  3D printing will allow the researchers to cheaply and efficiently replicate bones that previously were cast with plaster molds. The new digital technique lets the team create small, scale models of large dinosaurs and then turn those models into robots in order to study how the giant beasts moved. The study of dinosaur movement has thus far been a cordoned off area of paleontology since trying to turn a 80 ton plaster replica of a giant sauropod into a robot could be quite dangerous and difficult and this new procedure could change all of that. Read the rest of Scientists Will Begin 3D Printing Dinosaur Robots Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3d printed dinosaur robots , 3d printed robots , 3d printer , 3D printing , 3d printing technology , dinosaur movement , dinosaur replicas , dinosaur robots , drexel university , innovation in paleontology , paleontologists , paleontology Read more from the original source: Scientists Will Begin 3D Printing Dinosaur Robots

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