Journal
ROBOTICA
Volume 29, Issue -, Pages 177-191Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S026357471000069X
Keywords
Self-replicating machine; Rapid prototyping; Additive fabrication; Biomimetics; Mutualism; Open-source; Free software; Fused-filament fabrication
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- United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Bath University's Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre
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This paper presents the results to date of the RepRap project - an ongoing project that has made and distributed freely a replicating rapid prototyper. We give the background reasoning that led to the invention of the machine, the selection of the processes that we and others have used to implement it, the designs of key parts of the machine and how these have evolved from their initial concepts and experiments, and estimates of the machine's reproductive success out in the world up to the time of writing (about 4500 machines in two and a half years).
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