3D printing meets robot design

This is a great way to get one of these printers and have it pay its own way while you're paying it off. There was a company that paid for several of these machines by printing world of warcraft character models (not easy since the WoW guys didn't really take into account making these things for real)

The Z-machine uses a sintering process (bits a material are laid down and then flash heated into solidity) and has the feature that it can do basic colors.

Slowly but surely I think we'll find the materials and the technology to make this stuff generate things we need 'on demand' at a cost that is comparable to mass production.