Maxim Chertof keeps busy with the Perfactory® 3 Mini Multi Lens. The Latvian 3D sculptor and designer makes unpainted figurines and models for collectors. Many of the Perfactory prints Chertof has shared with EnvisionTEC have been wonderful, but his latest character is the most intriguing. Meet K.T., the diminutive android who demonstrates the accuracy, quality and functionality produced by Perfactory 3D printers.
Meet K.T. (named after Chertof’s wife, Katy) stands at only 54 millimeters tall, and as you can she, she is quite petite.
The individual parts of her body are printed on a Perfactory 3 Mini Multi Lens before the parts are removed, cleaned and put together. She has “joints” in all the places a person would — K.T. can be posed in many positions.
Here she balances atop a battery.
K.T. stands on a guitar pick!
Here she balances atop a battery.
Finally, K.T. rests.
Future Designs
Chertof plans to make more cyborgs like this K.T. set in a futuristic society. Rather than being made of metal and bolts, Chertof imagines that androids will be — you guessed it — 3D printed!
“3D printers can print many materials,” he says. His concept of a future robot will have a body printed by carbon fiber with integrated wire and electronics inside the shell. They will run on flexible batteries which will allow for movement and use artificial muscles, “not hydraulics like in old tractors,” Chertof concludes. A lot of these technologies have already been invented — it just takes a creative builder like Chertof to put it all together. Though K.T. may not be a fully-functioning cyborg just yet, she definitely looks like one, and the ideas behind her design make her all the more captivating.
K.T. is just a 3D printed doll, but what about the future? Perhaps one day androids will exist, and maybe they too will be “born” from a 3D printer. That day is pretty far away, but we do believe that EnvisionTEC printers are a part of futuristic technology and forward-thinking solutions.
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