Good Vibrations ...device builds objects without touching them

YOU won’t believe your eyes...we could soon be making objects without touching them, thanks to a process known as acoustic levitation.

- Dean Murray

The LeviPrint system uses sound waves to lift and combine materials in a contactless way.

A prototype robot arm and levitator testing various manufacturing processes was able to hold up items, including glue, then float them together to make structures.

Researchers at the Universidad Publica de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, built a bridge from sticks, a matchstick cube – and even put “cat’s ears” on an orange.