Category: blog

ugee, the Shenzhen-based digital creativity brand, has globally launched Funbox, its first desktop 3D printer aimed at children and beginners, priced at $269 and positioned as a home-grade, out-of-the-box machine…ugee launches Funbox, a new desktop 3D printer built for children

A team at the University of Brighton is building a new class of inexpensive, environmentally conscious medical sensors that aim to make testing cheaper and more widely available. Over the…Low-cost 3D printed sensors could widen access to diagnostics

A graduate student at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science has 3D printed a set of six custom hand prosthetics for a woman born with only one hand, at…Six Hands, Six Purposes: Yale’s 3D Printed Prosthetic Set

The BMW Group is turning additive manufacturing from a prototyping tool into a standing pillar of its industrial production, with the first vehicle components made by Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing…BMW Group pushes 3D printing toward full industrial series production

A team at the University of Waterloo has built a digital manufacturing system that prints custom contact lenses in roughly 20 minutes, raising the prospect that a patient could be…A new silicone lets 3D printers turn out custom-fit contact lenses

Researchers at MIT have developed a design framework that optimizes concrete structures while accounting for the physical limits of 3D printers. The research also reveals that printer hardware, not concrete,…MIT optimizes concrete 3D printing for manufacturability

Swiss satellite and payload maker SWISSto12 has closed a $70 million (€61 million) Series C, funding it says will expand manufacturing as orders climb across commercial and government customers.  The…SWISSto12 Raises $70M to keep pace with multi-orbit demand

Researchers at Concordia University have developed an inverse 4D printing of composites method for producing curved vertical-axis wind turbine blades from carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy. The process forms the blades on…Concordia researchers use 4D printing of composites to produce wind turbine blades on flat molds

A new study in Science Advances finds that a rubbery material first engineered for 3D printing may resolve a problem that has long dogged materials science: producing printable elastomers that…EPFL’s 3D Printed Elastomer Resists Both Fracture and Fatigue

Colorado-based defense company SkyDefense has introduced CobraJet, an AI-controlled vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed to detect, identify, track, and destroy hostile drones at speed. The autonomous multirole jet…SkyDefense Unveils CobraJet, a 3D Printed VTOL Interceptor