3D printing service provider Shapeways is set to auction off $5 million of its hardware from industrial 3D printer manufacturer Desktop Metal. The online auction will feature a catalog of metal 3D printing equipment that Shapeways had previously been using…
Open Bionics’ new 3D printed fingers adopted for the first time, commercial launch coming soon
UK-based robotics company Open Bionics has announced that its 3D printed finger device has been adopted for the first time by a hand amputee from London. The new 3D printed prosthesis, called the Hero Gauntlet, was made for 50-year-old Londoner…
BCN3D announces Supernova, a new company expanding VLM into high-volume production
Spanish 3D printer manufacturer BCN3D has announced the launch of Supernova, a carve out of its Viscous Lithography Manufacturing (VLM) business unit. Headquartered between Austin and Barcelona, Supernova seeks to unlock new end-use, high-volume applications. The company hopes to achieve…
Materials Processing Institute leads development of new AI tool to optimize metal 3D printing material reuse
The Materials Processing Institute, a UK-based materials research and innovation center, is leading a £600,000 research project to enable greater cost-efficiencies in metal additive manufacturing through a novel artificial intelligence (AI) tool. The UK-based research institute is collaborating with 3D…
New open-source Millennium Mill Milo v1.5 CNC kit for under £1,300: technical specifications and pricing
LDO Motors, a chinese electric motor manufacturer, has released a kit for the Millennium Mill Milo v1.5 open source CNC mill from Millennium Machines. Millennium Machines is an open-source community project which seeks to make desktop-sized subtractive manufacturing equipment accessible…
Blind man develops new AI-based design workflow for vision-impaired 3D printing
A blind Reddit user with the handle Mrblindguardian has developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based workflow that allows him to design and 3D print custom models from scratch. Posting to Reddit on 27 January, Mrblindguardian explained how he has leveraged…
Farhad Ebrahimi acquires 5.1% of Stratasys shares, adding to stake in Desktop Metal
US billionaire Farhad “Fred” Ebrahimi and his wife Mary Wilkie Ebrahimi have acquired a 5.1% stake in 3D printer manufacturer Stratasys, worth $47 million. Both Fred and Mary Ebrahimi are now a party-at-interest in the company, having reported the acquisition…
New Carcinotech funding to expand tumor 3D printing commercialization
Edinburgh-based tumor 3D printing specialists Carcinotech has successfully raised £4.2 million in an investment round led by Eos Advisory (Eos) and the Investment Fund for Scotland (IFS). This is the first equity deal from the £150 million IFS, conducted through…
UK Critical Imports and Supply Chain strategy published, role for 3D printing highlighted
The Critical Imports and Supply Chain strategy published this month by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the UK’s first overarching initiative designed to secure access to critical goods, and will see the government set up a Critical…
Scrona and Avantama collaboration enables sub-micron inkjet 3D printing
ETH Zurich spin-out Scrona AG and Avantama, a manufacturer of specialty materials for printed electronics, have successfully processed high-performance quantum dot (QD) ink using Scrona’s electrohydrodynamic (EHD) inkjet 3D printing technology. According to Scrona, EHD 3D printing enables fabrication at…
