Remembering the nobility of pre-3-D animation.

Cornell researchers are using 3D printing with a new material: food.  At home food printers are expected in the next ten years.

Students passing through Duffield yesterday afternoon during BOOM! — an annual engineering robotics expo — might have wondered if they had stepped accidentally into the future. The futuristic items on display included a 3-D printer owned by Cornell’s robotics lab that prints out on plastic rather than paper. The printer can even print robots, according to Prof.