The month of October 2021 saw the return of the 3D Printing Industry Awards and the winners announced for the Formnext 2021 Start-up Challenge, alongside bioprinting developments, hypersonic weapons, …
Revopoint 3D raises over £1.5M to smash Kickstarter goal with new POP 2 3D scanner
Imaging device manufacturer Revopoint 3D Technologies has raised over £1.5 million to support the launch of its upcoming POP 2 3D scanner. Built around the principles of binocular and micro-structured…
2021 3D Printing Industry Awards winners announced
We are proud to announce the 2021 winners of the 3D Printing Industry Awards… The 3D Printing Industry Awards returned in full force to highlight and champion the outstanding companies and peopl…
General Lattice secures US Army contract to improve combat helmets with 3D printing
The 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards shortlists are open for voting, have your say now. 3D design software firm General Lattice has been awarded a contract by the US Army to improve the impact ab…
“World’s biggest” 3D printed object under construction ahead of Qatar’s upcoming 3D printing hub
WOLF Group, a company comprised of three brands focused on 3D printing, art and design, and technology education, has partnered with the Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA) and real estate firm Msheireb…
3D printed “chain mail” paves way for next-generation smart fabrics
Nominations for the 2021 3D Printing Industry Awards are now open, have your say who is leading the industry now. Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore and the Cal…
Markforged 3D printed adaptive equipment bolsters paralympic performance ahead of Tokyo 2020
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics well underway, a flurry of recent news announcements has shined a light on how 3D printing has contributed to the games. The most recent of these is from metal and carbon …
3D printed nanomaterial could replace kevlar and steel for bulletproof armor
The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), made up of the MIT, Caltech, ETH Zurich and the US Army Research Lab, has used 3D printing technology at the nanoscale to form a material that is repo…
MIT’s Inkbit to build 3D printers for USAF bases
Inkbit, a 2017 spin-out from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the US Air Force to build…
UC Santa Barbara researchers develop first 3D printable “bottlebrush” elastomer
Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) have developed a 3D printable “bottlebrush” elastomer with softness and elasticity resembling that of human tissue.&nb…