The advance could help make 3D printing more sustainable, enabling printing with renewable or recyclable materials that are difficult to characterize.
Neil Gershenfeld
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This 3D printer can figure out how to print with an unknown material
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Tiny diamond rotor could improve protein studies A new way of machining microscale rotors from diamond crystal can enable ultrasensitive NMR devices for probing proteins and other materials. 
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Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements. 



