3d printing

This Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor

November 11, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then installing it on location can be tedious for multi-part projects. What if there was a way for your printer to print its creation exactly where you needed it? That’s the promise of…

August 23, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

For centuries, humans have heated, blown, and stretched glass into everything from useful household items to intricate story-telling windows. Now researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana are working to adapt artisan glass-blowing techniques to a robotic platform. Instead of a torch and a pair of flame-resistant gloves,…

July 18, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people currently need a lifesaving organ transplant. Instead of waiting for donors, one way to solve this crisis in the future is to assemble replacement organs with bio-printing—3D printing that uses inks containing living cells. Scientists in Israel have found that origami…

June 11, 2024
Aerospace & Aeronautical

A rocket featuring the world’s first rocket engine 3D printed as a single piece blasted off from India’s east coast in late May. Startup Agnikul fabricated the engine in just 72 hours and hopes the approach could open the door to “on-demand” rocket launches for operators of small satellites. The…

15 Nov 23

Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A skeletal robotic hand with working ligaments and tendons can now be 3D-printed in one run. The creepy accomplishment was made possible by a new approach to additive manufacturing that can print both rigid and elastic materials at the same time in high resolution. The new work is the result…

07 Apr 23

Holograms Supercharge Nanoscale 3D Printing

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Using holograms, a nanoscale 3D printer can now rapidly fabricate complex items with details smaller than a wavelength of visible light, a new study finds. This research can rapidly manufacture nanotechnological arrays of wires, lenses, rotating magnetic gears, and other structures—suggesting applications in electronics, photonics, microrobotics and more.Currently, the most…

07 Sep 22

Researchers 3D-print walls that can grow plants

Geotechnical & Environmental

By combining soil and seeds into 3D-printable "soil inks", the University of Virginia scientists believe greenery could be built into the very fabric of architectural features rather than just layered on top. To build these green walls, the UVA research team is combining additive manufacturing’s speed, cost efficiency and low…

This Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor

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Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go

Holograms Supercharge Nanoscale 3D Printing

Researchers 3D-print walls that can grow plants

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