Research

At Harvard, a group of researchers are developing a solution that will bioprint blood vessels on living tissues. Their paper ‘Biomanufacturing of organ-specific tissues with high cellular density and embedded vascular channels’ published in Science Advances, highlights a new technique…

Soft robotics is one of the subfields of robotics dealing with constructing robots from highly compliant materials, similar to those found in living organisms. This field looks at the way in which living organisms move and adapt to their surroundings…

A team of scientists from the Guwahati Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is advancing bioprinting in India. Apparently, they created a bioink from silk proteins that could be used for 3D printing tissues, implants and organs at unbeatable costs. These…

Last week, it was reported that a group of UCLA engineers received a $1.5 million grant to make environmentally friendly concrete – by environmentally friendly they mean that it will incorporate carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, as part of a…

A group of scientists at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have created Astro, a robodog. Using deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) this quadruped robot is capable of seeing and hearing. This prototype was created at FAU’s Machine Perception and Cognitive…

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are one step closer towards the manufacture of functional 3D printed organs: by using FluidForm technology, they have been able to reconstruct parts of the human heart, including heart valves. Called FRESH (Freeform Reversible Embedding…

The new “Break the Grid” initiative seeks to set 3D printers free to crawl, swim and fly in order to meet the challenges of population growth and global warming. This project is a collaboration between Denmark’s GXN Innovation, a subsidiary…

At Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, a team of researchers announced they succeeded in 3D printing parts using a wood-based ink, perfectly imitating the ultrastructure of the natural material. This is good news for the industry, which wants to…

A team of researchers from ETH Zurich has teamed up with South African company Strait Access Technologies to create artificial 3D printed heart valves from silicone. These could serve as replacement valves for an aging population – they represent a…

Scientists at Berkeley Lab in the US have made a new material that could lead to 3D printable magnetic liquid devices. Today, many essential technologies rely on magnets made from solid materials – for example, magnetic data storage devices or…

A team of researchers at Tufts University has 3D printed a pill that when ingested samples bacteria found in the gut as it passes through the gastrointestinal tract. According to the researchers this is the first non-invasive device to accurately…

There is a reason why the most popular and widely used 3D printing material for FDM printers is PLA. It’s a very easy to print plastic compared to other materials, which makes it the ideal filament for amateurs. Also, there…