Search results for 3-D printing

Robotics Jul 9, 2015

3-D-printed robot is hard at heart, soft on the outside (w/ Video)

Engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first robot with a 3D-printed body that transitions from a rigid core to a soft exterior. The robot is capable of more than 30 ...

Engineering Jul 2, 2015

Researchers to test new optical fibre 3-D printing technique

Researchers at the University of Southampton are set to investigate using 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, techniques in the fabrication of optical fibre.

Space Exploration Jun 15, 2015

3-D printed rocket engine aims for flight record

On a hot, dusty Friday evening in May, a caravan of five cars packed with UC San Diego students rolled onto FAR site in the Mojave Desert—a 10-acre property established by the Friends of Amateur Rocketry, Inc. to safely ...

Engineering Jun 10, 2015

3-D printing with metals achieved

A team of researchers from the University of Twente has found a way to 3D print structures of copper and gold, by stacking microscopically small metal droplets. These droplets are made by melting a thin metal film using ...

Engineering Jun 3, 2015

3-D printing goes high speed and high volume

The world's first additive manufacturing (3-D printing) machine that can make plastic parts as fast and as cheaply as traditional manufacturing is to be built by the University of Sheffield.

Engineering Jun 2, 2015

Legal and technological implications of 3-D printing

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the process of turning a 2D digital image into a 3D object through printing successive layers of materials until an entire item is created. Initial images are created in design software ...

Engineering May 27, 2015

3-D printed anatomy kit is now available

A unique kit containing anatomical body parts produced by 3D printing is now available for medical students to use worldwide.

Plants & Animals May 26, 2015

One to ovoid? Using 3-D printing, researchers can study what causes birds to reject eggs with greater precision

Old-school field work meets cutting-edge technology! For decades, researchers have been making artificial eggs out of plaster, wood, and other materials to test how birds identify and reject the eggs that invading "brood ...

Engineering May 22, 2015

New computational technique advances color 3-D printing process

Working with researchers at Zhejiang University in China, Changxi Zheng, assistant professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a technique that enables hydrographic printing, a widely used industrial ...

Materials Science Apr 29, 2015

Breakthrough in 3-D printing of replacement body parts

QUT biofabrication team has made a major breakthrough by 3D printing mechanically reinforced, tissue engineered constructs for the regeneration of body parts.

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