Brooklyn-based nine printing company Voodoo Manufacturing has unveiled a robotically managed nine printer cluster that allows nine printing to compete on cost with injection moulding. Called Project Skywalker, the cluster of 3D MakerBot Replicators pumps out production batches in parallel, with completed units "harvested" by a Universal Robots UR10 robotic arm. Voodoo plans to scale up the technology as soon as possible. “Using a robot to automate purely the harvesting step of our process would increase the current 40 printers/employee ratio to approximately 400 printers/employee," said company co-founder Jonathan Schwartz.
Brooklyn-based 3D printing company Voodoo Manufacturing has unveiled a robotically managed 3D printer cluster that allows 3D printing to compete on cost with injection moulding. Called Project Skywalker, the cluster of nine MakerBot Replicators pumps out production batches in parallel, with completed units "harvested" by a Universal Robots UR10 robotic arm. Voodoo plans to scale up the technology as soon as possible. “Using a robot to automate purely the harvesting step of our process would increase the current 40 printers/employee ratio to approximately 400 printers/employee," said company co-founder Jonathan Schwartz.