3D printer manufacturer Markforged has raised another round of funding. Summit Partners is leading the $82 million Series D round with Matrix Partners, Microsoft’s Venture Arm, Next47 and Porsche SE also participating. When you think about 3D printers, chances are you’re thinking about microwave-sized, plastic-focused 3D printers for hobbyists. Markforged is basically at the other […]
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This robot turns any area into a workspace
Hextbot is a 3D printer and laser engraver in one. Read more…More about Mashable Video, 3d Printing, Kickstarter Project, Laser Engraver, and Hexbot
View More This robot turns any area into a workspaceHelping children overcome their mobility challenges, Trexo Robotics gets a Y Combinator boost
Manmeet Maggu and Rahul Udasi didn’t know it when they met at the University of Waterloo 11 years ago, but the bond they forged in late-night study sessions as roommates has helped drive their work to create an exoskeleton that provides mobility for children with disabilities. The fruit of that labor is Trexo Robotics, which […]
View More Helping children overcome their mobility challenges, Trexo Robotics gets a Y Combinator boostThis new 3D printer makes objects appear out of nowhere
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory invented a new 3D printer, which they nicknamed “replicator” after the famous Star Trek device. The printer makes objects appear seemingly out of thin air by using an off-the-shelf …
View More This new 3D printer makes objects appear out of nowhereThis light-powered 3D printer materializes objects all at once
3D printing has changed the way people approach hardware design, but most printers share a basic limitation: they essentially build objects layer by layer, generally from the bottom up. This new system from Berkeley, however, builds them all at once more or less by projecting a video through a jar of light-sensitive resin.
View More This light-powered 3D printer materializes objects all at onceCarbon is 3D printing custom football helmet liners for Riddell
Just in time to ride the last of the pre-Super Bowl buzz, Carbon today announced that it’s teaming up with sports equipment giant Riddell to 3D print customized football helmet padding. Referred to as “Diamond technology,” the collaboration creates lattice design pads of resin that are custom built to a player’s dimensions and position. Carbon […]
View More Carbon is 3D printing custom football helmet liners for RiddellThese 3D printed shoes were inspired by nature and look fierce
Ica & Kostika’s “Exobiology” collection shows us that nature is far from boring. Each shoe is 3D printed and custom-fitted, achieving looks impossible just a few years ago. Read more…More about Fashion, Mashable Video, 3d Printing, Ica Kostika, …
View More These 3D printed shoes were inspired by nature and look fierceDesktop Metal just raised another $160 million
Desktop Metal announced this morning that it’s raised $160 million. That Series E brings the Burlington, Massachusetts-based metal 3D printing company up to a whopping $438 million. The startup’s tagline reads says the company “is reinventing the way design and manufacturing teams print with metal” — and now it undoubtedly has the money to do […]
View More Desktop Metal just raised another $160 millionDreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth
3D-printing the first rocket on Mars. That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. At the time they were working from a WeWork in Seattle, during the darkest winter in Seattle history, where Ellis was wrapping up a stint at Blue Origin . The […]
View More Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on EarthThese gorgeous 3D-printed snacks are made from food waste
Globally, one-third of the food that we produce every year is going to waste. Dutch designer Elzelinde van Doleweerd wanted to address this issue and she started creating recipes that would incorporate discarded food and turn it into a printable food…
View More These gorgeous 3D-printed snacks are made from food waste3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone
There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: from prosthetics, corneas, and firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge. You can even 3D print a life-size replica of a human head — and not just for Hollywood. Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster commissioned a 3D printed model of his own head to test the face […]
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