3D printing in water open door to advanced biomedical materials

Researchers from Israel have developed a new kind of photoinitiator for 3D printing in water. The photoinitiators could be used to make bio-friendly 3D printed structures.

Giant robots and 3D printers are building a futuristic house in Switzerland

Researchers from Zurich University plan to use giant robots and 3D printers to build “the first house in the world to be designed, planned and built using predominantly digital processes.”

This Squishy Artificial Heart is Amazing

Researchers in Europe have created a soft artificial heart that mimics the real one. The approach could revolutionize the way patients with heart disease are treated.

The World's Largest Laser-Powered 3D Metal Printer

Using powdered metal and high-powered lasers, this additive manufacturing machine can produce virtually any metal part within a one-meter cube area.

3D-printed 'bionic skin' could give robots the sense of touch

Engineering researchers have developed a revolutionary process for 3D printing stretchable electronic sensory devices that could give robots the ability to feel their environment.

3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings

Technology developed at MIT could enable faster, cheaper, more adaptable building construction.

3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings

Technology developed at MIT could enable faster, cheaper, more adaptable building construction.

Shapeshifting Method Uses Heat to Bring 3D Printing Into the Fourth Dimension

With 4D printing, the element of time becomes part of the printing system, resulting in materials that emerge with one shape but then morph into another.

Made In Space celebrates a year of 3D printing on the International Space Station

Made In Space is an US manufacturer of the world’s first microgravity 3D printer. As of April 2017, the company has produced 39 objects including spare parts for NASA, and components for medical research.

Nanostructure 3D printing mimics bio-materials

Printing of metal structures with complex 3D architectures will have a variety of uses from batteries to biological scaffolds.

3D-printed skyscraper: Exciting new heights, or imaginative fantasy?

Dubai-based construction firm Cazza this week announced plans to build the world’s first-ever 3D-printed skyscraper. Cazza has dubbed its new technique for high-rise building - ‘crane painting’.

Dramatic improvement in surface finishing of 3-D printing

New process combines better quality with low cost and less waste, giant step towards home 3-D printing.

Nanoengineers 3-D print biomimetic blood vessel networks

Nanoengineers have 3-D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could pave the way toward artificial organs and regenerative therapies.

Architect envisions future oceanic city 3D printed from algae and plastic waste

Belgian architect and visionary Vincent Callebaut suggested a new urban design concept that emphasizes sustainability and puts a particular focus on the treatment of our oceans.

This Is the First Privately Commissioned 3D-Printed Object Made in Space

The unassuming 3D-printed gravity meter was commissioned by a private citizen and manufactured aboard the ISS, and represents a significant step forward in space exploration.