3d printing

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. Given that heart transplantation is currently the only treatment available for end-stage heart disease patients, the need for advances in cardiac regenerative medicine is urgent.…

Sporting goods present unique challenges for 3D printers due to their size, durability, and specialized nature. But a team of Michigan Technical University engineers and re:3D Inc. have been using an open source industrial fused particle…

Human-like robots with soft bodies that can care for older adults in hospitals and nursing homes may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but soft-formed, caregiving robots created through 3D printing technology could be right around…

Performance enhancing smart textiles intended for use in athletics, extreme sports and military applications are in their infancy. E-textiles that can regulate body temperature, reduce wind resistance, control muscle vibration, or guard…

The world’s first autonomous rocket factory, Relativity, has landed a contract with Telesat, the renowned global satellite operator, that allows it to play a role in Telesat’s innovative LEO satellite constellation. Telesat will now have…

Advances in 3D printing make it possible to 3D-print your own prosthetic from models found in open-source databases. But those models lack personalized electronic user interfaces like those found in costlier, state-of-the-art…

In the quest to determine how what happens in one part of the brain affects what happens in the rest of the brain, researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a transparent brain implant for mice using 3D-printing. By…

It's been quite a topic of concern lately, take-out containers and to-go coffee cups creating a large amount of waste that ends up in landfills and contaminating the Earth. That's why, for the last few years, a Brooklyn-based design company…

A private launch company that just hit the spotlight Summer 2018 is now making headlines for revealing the world's largest 3D-printed rocket engine. Orbex publicly unveiled its Prime rocket for the first time at the opening of its new…

A new 3D-printed rubber material developed by researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering means that perhaps we won't have to trash our worn down shoes. Instead, we can simply let them self-repair.…