{"id":13699,"date":"2012-02-23T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2012-02-23T13:17:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T18:17:17","slug":"3d-print-your-own-robot-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/3d-print-your-own-robot-dinosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"3D-print your own robot dinosaur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at The Register<\/em><\/a>, there’s a discussion on the latest frontier in paleontology — Xeroxiraptors:<\/p>\n

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Dino-loving boffins in the US have embarked on their very own Jurassic Park-esque experiment to bring the actions of Earth’s favourite prehistoric lizards to life.<\/p>\n

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The researchers, from Philadelphia’s Drexel University, are using 3D printing to create dino-bones and then attaching artificial muscles and tendons to create dinosaur robots.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology in paleontology hasn’t changed in about 150 years,\u201d paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara said. \u201cWe use shovels and pickaxes and burlap and plaster. It hasn’t changed — until right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 3D printers build the dino-bones by repeatedly putting out thin layers of resin or another material to build up the object based on a digital design.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at The Register, there’s a discussion on the latest frontier in paleontology — Xeroxiraptors: Dino-loving boffins in the US have embarked on their very own Jurassic Park-esque experiment to bring the actions of Earth’s favourite prehistoric lizards to life. The researchers, from Philadelphia’s Drexel University, are using 3D printing to create dino-bones and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,15],"tags":[679,784,36],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-science","category-technology","tag-3dprinting","tag-paleontology","tag-robots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3yX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13705,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions\/13705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}