3D printing news

It’s a bad time to be a harmful algal bloom (HAB)! On August 6th, Florida Atlantic University announced that a team of its researchers were awarded an $800,475 grant from the Gulf of America Division U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to…

Hi3D has released V3.0 of its all-in-one AI 3D model generator, which now builds geometry at 2048³ voxel resolution. That is up from 1536³ in the previous version, or 2.37 times the voxel count, and texture output goes up to…

Physical AI, the growing category of AI systems built to act in the real world rather than just process data, is one of the fastest-moving corners of the robotics industry. Companies building autonomous robots, automated lab equipment, and warehouse deployments…

Hyundai Motor Group installed its first industrial 3D printer in 1996. Nearly 30 years later, Hyundai Motor and Kia have opened an entire facility dedicated to additive manufacturing research and production: the Additive Manufacturing Solution Center (AMSC), located at the…

One of the most intimidating aspects of 3D printing can be the software element. If you can’t find a pre-designed 3D model that suits your needs, you might have to create your own, and making your own 3D design is…

Since the G1 Series went live on Kickstarter on July 23, the campaign’s comment section has become an active back-and-forth between HeyGears and prospective backers. We introduced the platform in our first look and covered the campaign launch earlier. The…

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) 3D printing is a powder bed fusion process that uses a laser to fuse polymer powder into solid, functional parts layer by layer. SLS 3D printing works by spreading thin layers of material, selectively sintering each…

An STL file (short for stereolithography) is the most common format for representing the geometry of an object to be 3D-printed. Unlike formats such as OBJ, 3MF, or AMF, STL describes only the shape using a mesh of triangles, without…

Tinkercad is a free, browser-based platform for 3D design, electronics, and beginner-level coding, developed by Autodesk. Autodesk acquired the tool in 2013, two years after its launch by former Google engineer Kai Backman and co-founder Mikko Mononen, and has since…

Professional ballet dancers can go through hundreds of pairs of pointe shoes each year. Could 3D printing change that? German startup act’ble believes it can. Ballet emerged in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries, but Italian shoemakers only toughened…

When Ian Ramsdell, founder of Kupros, started asking electronics specialists about 3D printing copper, he faced plenty of skepticism. One expert, in Ramsdell’s recollection, insisted it could not be done and never would be: “Copper can’t be 3D printed, it’ll…

Europe is living through its fourth major heatwave of the 2026 season, with temperatures above 40°C recorded across the Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy, and Austria. Cities are hit hardest: urban heat island effects can push local temperatures 1.7 to 4°C…