In this edition of 3D Printing Industry’s Sliced digest of additive manufacturing news we congratulate Professor Jennifer Lewis of Harvard University on her induction into the US National Academ…
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GeorgiaTECH put a cat amongst the pigeons with 3D printing soft robotics research
GeorgiaTECH PhD student Alexis Noel has been studying the adhesive properties of animal tongues for over two years. Originally her research focused on the sticky catapult of frog tongues, but recently…
Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH addresses the future of 3D printed organs
Today and yesterday, the 1st & 2nd November 2016, marks Fortune magazine’s first Brainstorm HEALTH conference, held in San Diego, CA. The theme of the conference is “Seizing the Disruptive Opportu…
3D printing advances end to animal testing with Harvard’s heart on a chip
Researchers at Harvard University have managed to 3D print a functional heart on a chip that could eradicate the need for animal testing in biomedical studies. Microphysiological systems (MPS) otherwi…
Small steps, big impact – 3D bioprinting kidneys at Harvard
Though it takes just an instant for research to become a discovery, an apple falling from a tree; a bolt of lighting; the snap of a shutter, fully developed breakthroughs in science and medicine take …
Harvard engineers create Octobot, the first soft robot
Meet Octobot! This amazing robot is the first autonomous, entirely soft robot, and was created by a team of Harvard University researchers. The Octobot is inspired by octopuses, and could revolutioniz…
Breakthrough: 3D Print metal with no support.
Researchers at Harvard University have come up with an exciting new method of 3D printing that effectively allows them to produce complex shapes in mid-air with no supporting structure. Laser assisted…
Bioprinting Gets a Boost from Thick 3D Printed Human Tissues
Outside of acting as the CEO of Voxel8, Dr. Jennifer Lewis performs cutting edge research into the diverse fields of bioprinting, electronics, and 4D printing, pushing the boundaries of these exciting…
Harvard's 4D Printed Flowers to Pave Way for 4D Printed Human Tissues
When I interviewed Voxel8 CEO Jennifer Lewis last year, she told me that she didn’t want me to conflate her research with her commercial work, namely the multi-material, electronics 3D printer s…
Voxel8 3D Prints the 'Fun' in 'Functional' at CES 2016
When Voxel8, the 3D printing company started by Harvard Professor Jennifer Lewis (check out our interview with Professor Lewis here), showed up at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2015, they qui…