Hasta La Ideas

The Halo-like soldier up top and the suspension assembly beneath it–featuring stiff cross-members combined with flexible rubber wheels and even plastic springs–all came out of the same Connex RP machine, which can work two different materials simultaneously. Gerald Berberian of Objet Geometries runs their technology down:

(Note: The first word in “Objet Geometries” is pronounced “ob-jett” as in airplane, not “objay” as in objet d’art. Now you can correct someone at that holiday cocktail party filled with engineers.)

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