While cable-driven mechanisms can create real-time motion to make an object bend, twist, or fold, they can be complicated and ...

"This hands-on approach helps develop problem-solving skills, spatial reasoning, and creativity," an expert told Newsweek.

How much access do you have to a 3D printer? What would you do if you had weeks of time on your hands and a couple spools of filament lying around? Perhaps you would make a two second stop-motion ...

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material.

Yumoto notes that most 3D printers currently target two types of applications: larger objects tens to hundreds of centimetres in size or tiny materials no bigger than a few millimetres.