How Japan’s adorable zero-gravity space drone navigates ISS
There is no denying that Japans Aerospace Exploration Agencies (JAXA) JEM Internal Ball Camera is cute but the tiny space...
Ground breaking new 3D-Printing technique allows the printing of Transparent Glass
A brand new 3D printing technique could allow scientists to print glass which incorporates different 'refractive indices' in a single...
3D printing a castle on the nib of a pencil
A team of Engineers from TU Wien have demonstrated a new 3D printing technique that allows them to print a...
Stanfords new method for recording bird flight in 3D shows how birds deform their wings
Engineers at Standford University have developed a new 3D method for recording the shape of birds’ wings during flight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVJDjbJioQ...
Meet Octobot – a 3D-printed robot that uses microfluidics rather than electronics
Engeineers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering are showing off their 'Octobot'. The small autonomous robot is powered by...
Police obtain access to smartphone by 3D printing victims fingerprint
Police in the USA have found a way around past the notoriously hard to crack smartphone fingerprint protection by scanning...
3D printed truck spare parts developed by Mercedes-Benz
This September, Mercedes-Benz is promising to make 30 spare plastic parts available to print for its cargo trucks. The innovation...
Arthritis sufferers offered hope by bio-printed cow cartilage
A new 3D printing technique from Penn States Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has produced cartilage from strands of...
Experimental ‘gecko foot’ 3D printer is being sent to the International Space Station
3D printing is coming to space, thanks to a new experimental 3D printer which uses Gecko Gripper technology. The 3D...
Ford installs laser sensors in its driverless cars
Ford is equipping its self-driving cars with LiDAR sensors, laser scanners which allow cars to create high resolution 3D maps...
Robots being produced cheaply and quickly through 3D printing
3D printing technology is beginning to offer ways for new robots to be built with fewer materials and very little...
New collaboration to offer 3D printed implants to UK patients
JRI Orthopaedics, a Sheffield healthcare company has partnered with 3D printing services provider Mobelife to provide hip and shoulder implants...
Materialise metal 3D printing tour announced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2URf89As9s Materialise has announced the launch of a European seminar tour to help engineers and designers learn about how they...
Driverless pods to be tested in scanned simulation of Coventry
The Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at Warwick University is to start trials for driverless pods, with help from a high...
Bring your doodles to life
In a video for the Telegraph, one of the latest products - the Livescribe 3 Smartpen - is tested by...
New technology can detect suspect luggage
A new system, developed by researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), possesses 3D...
US breakthrough in 3D printing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15VyqHN11E Engineers from HRL laboratories in California have developed a ceramic processing technique that is being hailed as a “breakthrough”...
New manufacturing training centre to open in Coventry
Business Secretary Sajid Javid is to formally open the Lloyds Bank Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre (AMTC), located on the campus...