3-D printing is an innovative manufacturing technique developed
by Michael Cima and Emanuel Sachs from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Once just used to create working
prototypes, 3-D printers are now used by people from engineers
to home inventors to make objects from their imaginations. Learn
more in this Science of Innovation video. Credit: NBC Learn,
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and National Science
Foundation The Division of Computing and Communication
Foundations (CCF) of the Directorate for Computer and
Information Science and Engineering supports research and
education projects that explore the foundations of computing and
communication devices and their usage. The Division seeks
advances in computing and communication theory, algorithms for
computer and computational sciences, and architecture and design
of computers and software. They're soft, biocompatible, about 7
millimeters long--and, incredibly, able to walk by themselves.
Miniature "bio-bots" developed at the University of Illi