Rapid Prototyping

The 3D printing market will be worth $22B in 2028

From its humble beginnings in the late 1980s, through to the global force that it is today, the capabilities of 3D printing technology have expanded dramatically, to establish itself as an attractive manufacturing solution for prototyping and production.

Nano Dimension, world's first on-demand 3D-printed electronics service

Nano Dimension announced the immediate availability of the world's first 3D-printed electronics online service, giving designers and engineers unprecedented access to develop smart, electrified objects, including those that cannot be produced by any other method today.

Custom ink, ultraviolet light to repeatedly change an object's colour

3-D printing has come a long way since the first rapid prototyping patent was rejected in 1980. The technology has evolved from basic designs to a wide range of highly-customizable objects. Still, there's a big issue: Once objects are printed, they're final. If you need a change, you'll need a reprint.

3D Printer for electronics purchased by NTU Singapore

Nano Dimension Ltd announced that Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has purchased the company's DragonFly 2020 Pro 3D Printer for electronics development.

Materialise

IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Bryony Core discussed Materialise's Software business unit with Thomas Moens and Stijn De Rijck.

3D printing inside the body

For the first time, researchers have shown that an optical fiber as thin as a human hair can be used to create microscopic structures with laser-based 3D printing.

Advance in perception and motion planning for autonomous vehicles

iDAR, a new form of intelligent data collection that enables rapid, dynamic perception and path planning. iDAR (Intelligent Detection and Ranging) combines the world's first agile MOEMS LiDAR, pre-fused with a low-light camera and embedded artificial intelligence - creating software-definable and extensible hardware that can adapt to real-time demands.

Nano Dimension expands its North American presence

Nano Dimension Ltd. announced that it teamed up with XponentialWorks and is opening a U.S. Customer Experience Center in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Additive Manufacturing: can we all have products customised

Current industrial systems are designed to produce products in standard shapes and sizes. For example, a shoe can be purchased in size 10 or 11 inches, and in some cases at 10.5 inches, but an exact fit is often hard to achieve. Additive Manufacturing technology has shown an exciting potential for addressing the technical and economic viability of producing custom made products for all.

Concept to Prototype in 21 Days: Rapid Development with StretchSense

There's little argument that we live in a data-driven world, and developing products to capture body motion data is a new frontier in the rapidly growing wearable sector.

Hybrid 3-D printing method for flexible electronics

A collaboration between scientists has resulted in a new method for digital design and printing of stretchable, flexible electronics. The process, called Hybrid 3-D printing, uses additive manufacturing to integrate soft, conductive inks with a material substrate to create stretchable, wearable electronic devices.

BIOLIFE4D

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed BIOLIFE4D CEO & President Mr Steve Morris on October 16, 2017. BIOLIFE4D is working towards a 3D bioprinted heart for transplant.

Myant commits $100M to the Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster

Myant is a key partner in the advanced manufacturing supercluster in the Toronto-Waterloo Innovation Corridor, which includes companies, universities, health agencies, and not-for-profit organizations.

Personal thermostat startup heats up for commercialisation

Sitting in a stifling subway car or walking Boston's cold winter streets may soon become more bearable, thanks to a "personal thermostat" wristband.

Toward the factories of the future

Automation, robotics, advanced computer-aided design, sensing and diagnostic technologies have revolutionized the modern factory, allowing the building of complex products, from microchips to cars and even airplanes, with unprecedented cost-efficiency, scale and reliability.

Towards a high-resolution, implantable neural interface

The goal of The Neural Engineering System Design program is developing an implantable system able to provide precision communication between the brain and the digital world.

Chemists create 3D printed graphene foam

Nanotechnologists have used 3D laser printing to fabricate centimeter-sized objects of atomically thin graphene.

Ten-engine electric plane completes successful flight test

Imagine a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and can take off like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft

3D printed polymer stents grow with pediatric patients and biodegrade

A new study demonstrates proof-of-concept for combining computational design and simulation tools with 3D printing technology to produce self-expandable polymer stents that can grow with pediatric patients, are biodegradable, and require only a minimally-invasive procedure for implantation.

Multi-cell additive manufacturing platform for continuous production

Stratasys Ltd took a significant step into low-volume, continuous production using additive technology when it unveiled a new product under development - the Stratasys Continuous Build 3D Demonstrator.