Ah, now this is clever – Samsung have designed a trio of laser printer concepts, one of which could be partly made of cardboard. Recognised by the International Design Excellence Awards 2013, the ...

MIT robotics experts Ankur Mehta and Daniela Rus recently published a paper that describes a system for designing and building print-and-fold robots. That’s 2D printing, too, not 3D printing.

3-D printing is all the rage, and printers are getting so small and affordable that even home tinkerers have the possibility of instantaneously seeing their computer creations rendered in solid ...