Research & Education
UTEP takes first step towards new Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace Center
The University of Texas at El Paso broke ground on the Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace Center — an $80 million building that will provide...
BionicANTs – Nature as a Model for Future Production Systems
German company specialised in factory and process automation, Festo, has presented a few of their highlights visitors at the Hannover Fair, taking place next week,...
US researchers have recreated a human ear using 3D printing technology
Using advanced tissue engineering techniques and a 3D printer, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering have produced a replica of an adult...
3&DBot – 3D Printing Robot
A group of industrial designers of LIFE and NEXT, academic research laboratories of PUC-Rio in Brasil, developed a 3D printing robot with wireless controller...
3D-Reprinter – A Concept of a Recycling 3D-Printer
The students Yangzi Qin, Yingting Wang, Luckas Fischer and Hanying Xie presented a concept for a recycling 3D printer. The concept aims to recycle printed...
Scientists develop Low-Cost 3D Printed Sensor for Water Quality
A novel, low-cost 3D-printed sensor for measuring water pollution could cause a sensation in environmental monitoring, according to its developers. Experts from Scotland, Portugal and...
Braunschweig University of Technology presents the “Digital Construction Site”
Homes, roads, bridges - construction is always underway. But mostly with construction techniques that have remained unchanged for decades. Digital solutions rarely make it...
Is 3D printing a green technology – and when?
3D printing has great potential to help the green transition on its way, but it is important to distinguish facts from fiction and focus...
Material science: Optimization of 3D-printed stainless steel against seawater corrosion
LLNL researchers reveal the causes of pitting corrosion in 3D-printed 316L stainless steel used in seawater in Nature Communications. Their discovery that slag particles...
US students practice surgery on 3D-printed bodies
Faced with rising monetary and environmental costs of obtaining, transporting and storing cadavers for teaching purposes, two University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)...
