MIT researchers just made a giant leap for robot-kind, by creating a working robot using 3D-printing. The breakthrough could lead to a world of ready-made machines that come off the production line needing only a motor and a battery. The initial prototype is tiny, but it demonstrates that a 3D printer with inkjet nozzles can print both liquid and solids, with a little help from UV light. MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) is pioneering the field of "printable hydraulics," which involves building liquid-filled pumps during the manufacturing process. Researchers used a commercially available 3D printer to create a robot made of both solids and liquids, for the first time in history.

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your fluid-filled Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. MIT has developed a 3D printer that can mix solids and liquids. With "printable hydraulics," an inkjet printer deposits individual droplets of material that are each 20 to 30 microns in diameter, or less than half the width of a human hair.

Rembrandt's genius died with him. His last painting, Simeon's Song of Praise, was an unfinished work that signalled the end of the career of the world's most famous painters ever. A team of people from organisations including ING and Microsoft have gotten together to keep the Rembrandts flowing. Using detailed scans of all of his paintings, deep learning to research bodies of work, AI to work it all out and 3D printing to execute a finale, they have created what they consider a suitable follow-up to Rembrandt van Rijn's 346 known paintings. Researching all previous paintings, there were some incredibly common themes that cropped up.

There's already plenty of angst out there about the prospect of jobs lost to artificial intelligence, but this week, artists got a fresh reason to be concerned. A new "Rembrandt" painting unveiled in Amsterdam is not the work of the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn at all, but rather the creation of a combination of technologies including facial recognition, AI, and 3D printing. Essentially, a deep-learning algorithm was trained on Rembrandt's 346 known paintings and then asked to produce a brand-new one replicating the artist's subject matter and style. Dubbed "The Next Rembrandt," the result is a portrait of a caucasian male, and it looks uncannily like the real thing. One particularly interesting detail about The Next Rembrandt project, which was a collaboration among several organizations including Dutch bank ING and Microsoft, is how the algorithm chose the subject for its painting, since it had to be entirely new.

There's already plenty of angst out there about the prospect of jobs lost to artificial intelligence, but this week, artists got a fresh reason to be concerned. A new "Rembrandt" painting unveiled in Amsterdam is not the work of the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn at all, but rather the creation of a combination of technologies including facial recognition, AI, and 3D printing. Essentially, a deep-learning algorithm was trained on Rembrandt's 346 known paintings and then asked to produce a brand-new one replicating the artist's subject matter and style. Dubbed "The Next Rembrandt," the result is a portrait of a caucasian male, and it looks uncannily like the real thing. One particularly interesting detail about The Next Rembrandt project, which was a collaboration among several organizations including Dutch bank ING and Microsoft, is how the algorithm chose the subject for its painting, since it had to be entirely new.

A team of experts from MIT have employed a novel 3D printing technique to combine solids and liquids in order to create a hydraulic six legged robot. MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers reveal the first-ever technique for 3-D printing robots, that involves printing solid and liquid materials at the same time, in a new paper. This interesting bot was created using a 3D printer that had commercial value. A series of bellows provided traction force to the mechanical legs and they were filled with liquid during the period of printing. This is a progressive step in 3D printing since instead of creating individual components, whole active systems can be manufactured.

Rembrandt may have died in 1669 but his artistic legacy lives on thanks in part to a new piece of work created with computer data, instead of the artist's hands. Revealed in the Netherlands, 'The Next Rembrandt' is the result of an 18-month project undertaken by a group of art historians, along with software developers, scientists, engineers and data analysts – not the usual team of artists for portraits work. Don't miss our biggest TNW Conference yet! The team worked tirelessly to anyalyze all known works of Rembrandt, which amounts to over 300 paintings, using high resolution 3D scans to capture every little detail and create an algorithm that would eventually be able to accurately recreate his style. That data was then fed to a 3D printer, which recreated the painting using 13 layers of paint-based UV ink.

Researchers over at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have come up with a new 3D printing process which is able to develop robots. What makes this process out of the ordinary is the fact that these robots are fully functional right from the moment in which they are finished printing. This new process has been streamlined, as the robot's solid and liquid hydraulic parts were developed in a single step. CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, who oversaw the project, shared, "Our approach, which we call'printable hydraulics,' is a step towards the rapid fabrication of functional machines. All you have to do is stick in a battery and motor, and you have a robot that can practically walk right out of the printer."

Rembrandt may have died in 1669 but his artistic legacy lives on thanks in part to a new piece of work created with computer data, instead of the artist's hands. Revealed in the Netherlands, 'The Next Rembrandt' is the result of an 18-month project undertaken by a group of art historians, along with software developers, scientists, engineers and data analysts – not the usual team of artists for portraits work. This year's edition of TNW Conference in Amsterdam includes some of the biggest names in tech. The team worked tirelessly to anyalyze all known works of Rembrandt, which amounts to over 300 paintings, using high resolution 3D scans to capture every little detail and create an algorithm that would eventually be able to accurately recreate his style. That data was then fed to a 3D printer, which recreated the painting using 13 layers of paint-based UV ink.

A'new' Rembrandt painting has been revealed - 400 years after the artist's death. Researchers taught an AI to paint exactly like the Dutch painter by analysing 346 of Rembrandt's paintings. The work of art took almost 18 months to complete, consists of 148 billion pixels and was printed in 3D to allow to computer to even replicate the brush strokes. The painting'The Next Rembrandt' is being unveiled at Galerie Looiersgracht60 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 05 April 2016. The painting was created by scientists and technicians based on the historical data of all 346 paintings by Rembrandt.