Clank: Open-Source Multitool Robot

I wanted to give a shout to this amazingly cool open-source robot that Nikhil Lal just demoed for me at MIT. It’s a multitool that is capable of a super broad range of tasks including PCB milling and FDM extruding, but also nanodroplet dispensing!

https://corexy.com/theory.html

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Can’t wait for the proliferation of low-cost general-purpose hardware for biology! We’re certainly entering the age of the hacker biologist…

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Downsizing robots (and sample size) would have huge advantages and doesn’t seem to have any obvious insurmountable barriers

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The quick change tool head is awesome.

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