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 nano scales. This mind-blowing video shows a castle being printed...
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.
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 chemical reactions controlled by microfluidics. It is 3D-printed and has...
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 and 3D printing the owners finger tips. Biometrics experts from...
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 is led, in part, by a backlog in the parts...
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 bioink