The 3-D Printer of Knitting Machines (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

The 3-D Printer of Knitting Machines

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James McCann, assistant professor of robotics, and Carnegie Mellon graduate students Lea Albaugh and Vidya Narayanan check a computer-controlled knitting machine. Their system translates a 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions so the machine can automatically produce them.

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Carnegie Mellon University/Michael Henninger

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