McLaren Applied Technologies, a member of the McLaren Group best known for automotive production, has used a range of 3D technologies to develop a medical breastplate. Known as Project Invincible, the…
Visiting the National Physical Laboratory advanced materials showcase
The National Physical Laboratory, based in Teddington, south-west London, is Britain’s national measurement institute and the country’s largest applied physics laboratory. While its main purpose is to…
3D printing brings robotics closer to real life with synthetic muscle
Scientists have invented a 3D printed synthetic muscle that can lift up to 1000 times its own weight. In a paper published earlier this week, Aslan Miriyev, Kenneth Stack and Hod Lipson from Columbia …
3D printing news Sliced GE, Stratasys, Renishaw, Rolls-Royce, Autodesk and EOS
In this 3D printing news digest, we have updates from Hinckley, A*Star, Rolls-Royce, UBC Okanagan, BioBots, University of Saskatchewan, Fraunhofer IPA, GoPrint3D, EOS, Candid, Stratasys, 3DCeram, Circ…
Structo and Materialise release Printworks Pro aimed at digital dentistry market
Materialise and Structo have announced that they are releasing Structo Printworks Pro, aimed at the digital dentistry market. The software builds upon Materialise’s existing Magics Print software, whi…
Simone Leonelli on the Blurred Boundaries between art, fashion and 3D printing
When art, fashion and 3D printing come together, the results can be simultaneously fascinating and perplexing. At the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Simone Leonelli, of the design W230 s…
€220k funding boost for German 3D printed cardiac stent research project
In 2015, coronary heart diseases killed 7.4 million people worldwide. Additive manufacturing technologies may now hold the key to drastically reducing this number, as the NewGen-Stent Research Project…
How 3D printing has changed dentistry, a billion dollar opportunity
Align Technology Inc., the company behind the Invisalign range of clear-aligner orthodontics, are on track for $1.5 billion in sales this year, according to a new article published by Forbes. Align ha…
Titan Robotics and Nigerian Foundries bring industrial 3D printing to West Africa
Titan Robotics, a US-based manufacturer of large-scale 3D printers has teamed up with Nigerian Foundries, one of the largest foundries in Africa, to install a machine to assist their industrial metalw…
Metal additive manufacturing updates from GE’s AP&C and PyroGenesis
AP&C, a producer of spherical metal powders for metal additive manufacturing, has opened a manufacturing facility in St Eustache, Quebec. The $31M CAD factory employs over 100 people and will be a…