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Hybrid Metal 3D Printer from Made In Space Gets NASA Funding

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in 3D printing, space

May 11
2018

The VULCAN system from Made In Space combines metal deposition with machining to create metal parts.

3D Printing Living Tissue Structures

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in 3D printing, biotech/medical

May 9
2018

This incredible 3D printer can create living human tissue.

Entrepreneur seeks to boldly go where no one has gone before: 3D printing nearly an entire rocket

Posted by Genevieve Klien in 3D printing, robotics/AI, space travel

Apr 27
2018

The CEO of Inglewood space start-up Relativity is trying to automate aerospace production by using robotics and 3D printing to make satellite-launching rockets. The company plans its first test flight in 2020.

Inside Cellink, the Swedish company building 3D printers for living tissue

Posted by Manuel Canovas Lechuga in 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical

Apr 23
2018

Digital Trends recently paid a fascinating visit to the headquarters of Cellink, one of the most exciting companies working on 3D bioprinted organs. Here is how the up-and-coming bioprinting company from Gothenburg, Sweden is hoping to change the future of medical science as we know it.

‘It’s about expanding Earth’: could we build cities in space?

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in 3D printing, space

Apr 21
2018

Meet the startup hoping to colonise the final frontier, one zero-gravity 3D printer at a time.

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Army researchers are developing a self-aware robot squid you can 3D print in the field

Posted by Genevieve Klien in 3D printing, robotics/AI

Apr 21
2018

In case you weren’t already terrified of robots that can jump over walls, fly or crawl, Army researchers are developing your next nightmare — a robot squid.

This remarkable spinal implant was created by an algorithm

Posted by Genevieve Klien in 3D printing, information science

Apr 17
2018

With the right design, titanium implants can be moulded closer to the form and stiffness of human bone. To perfect the design all you need is an algorithm and a 3D printer.

This bridge was 3D printed in midair

Posted by Shailesh Prasad in 3D printing

Apr 16
2018

This 9,920 pound steel bridge was 3D printed in midair.

New DIY 3D Bioprinter to Create Living Human Organs

Posted by Mean Raven in 3D printing, bioprinting, biotech/medical, engineering, life extension

Apr 8
2018

DIYers can bioprint living human organs by modifying an off-the-shelf 3D printer costing about $500, announce researchers who published the plans as open source, enabling anyone to build their own system. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ]

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) developed a low-cost 3D bioprinter to print living tissue by modifying a standard desktop 3D printer and released the design as open source so that anyone can build their own system.

The biomedical engineering team led by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Associate Professor Adam Feinberg, Ph.D., BME postdoctoral fellow TJ Hinton, Ph.D. just published a paper in the journal HardwareX describing a low-cost 3D bioprinter. The article contains complete instructions for modifying nearly any commercial plastic printer, as well as printing and installing the syringe-based, large volume extruder.

How 3D printing is spurring revolutionary advances in manufacturing and design

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in 3D printing, space

Mar 22
2018

A young startup called Relativity is pushing space technology forward by pushing 3D printing technology to its limits, building the largest metal 3D printer in the world. And other major companies anxious to try these new ways of manufacturing, too. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien looks at some of the amazing advances that’s launching the technology into a new era.