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They look vaguely like miniature hockey pucks skittering along on three pin-like metal legs, but a swarm of small robots called Kilobots at a laboratory at Harvard University is making a little bit of ...

The Monroe roll-forming method produces parts with curved sides, conical shapes, and profiles with varying cross-sections. A new method of roll forming steel sections promises substantial cost ...