QA110 A New Approach to Robotics: Designing for Additive Manufacturing

Course Description

Curious about how additive design and manufacturing can transform robotic fabrication? This course dives into making electromechanical systems—robots—easier to design and build, empowering application experts (who may not have expertise in robot design or fabrication) to create custom robots for specific needs quickly and efficiently.

Traditional electromechanical design relies on expert judgment, involving an iterative and labor-intensive design and fabrication process. This approach often limits scalability, favoring durable, general-purpose, and costly designs to offset development and production expenses.

In this course, you’ll explore new tools, 3D printing techniques, and multi-material additive manufacturing to transform ideas into functional electromechanical robotic systems. Learn how these advances are reshaping manufacturing, additive design, and the role of robotics in industry.

Originally presented as a Flextech Community Master Class by Dr. Robert MacCurdy and Prof. Greg Whiting of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and hosted by Gity Samad, Ph.D.