{"id":12060,"date":"2019-02-20T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=12060"},"modified":"2019-02-20T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:42:25","slug":"aether-procter-gamble-200220195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/aether-procter-gamble-200220195\/","title":{"rendered":"Aether and Procter &#038; Gamble partner up to develop cutting edge 3D printing and AI technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aether, the San Francisco-based startup offers AI-enhanced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/future-3d-bioprinting1805201741\/\">3D bioprinting<\/a>. As a matter of fact, it has just received a two-year joint agreement with Procter &amp; Gamble (P&amp;G), a multinational consumer goods giant. The two companies have announced they will work together to further develop breakthrough 3D printing and AI technologies.<\/p>\n<h3>A collaboration to develop the relationship between 3D printing and AI<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the aims behind this collaboration is to introduce a new, next generation Aether 3D printer. As of now, Aether has one printer on the market, Aether 1. The former is a multi-material 3D bioprinter with a multi-tool hybrid manufacturing system unified into a single device. It uses artificial intelligence to automate difficult and time-consuming tasks. The materials with which it can print include viscous pastes, gels, ABS\/PLA and most filaments, liquids, ceramics and foods. We also reported at the end of January that Aether, UCL and Loughborough University were developing\u00a0 an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/3d-printing-nanostructures-aether-300120195\/\">ink containing nanoparticles to act as a nanosurgical tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12063\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12063\" class=\"wp-image-12063 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether_team.jpg\" alt=\"Aether\" width=\"350\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether_team.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether_team-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether_team-160x183.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Business Wire<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ryan Franks, CEO and Founder of Aether said for a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20190219005345\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>, \u201c<em>Aether is working with P&amp;G to completely redefine 3D printing. It\u2019s no longer going to be just about depositing a material or two in a specific pattern. We\u2019re building something more like an intelligent robotic craftsman, able to perform highly complex tasks with many different tools, visually evaluate and correct its work throughout the fabrication process, and constantly learn how to improve<\/em>\u201d.<\/p><div class=\"dnati-inside-article-leaderboard\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"dnati-1142952709\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/3717757396787\/WN_sBfwcCHoQSq1mEANYpWa6Q\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"LB (3)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/LB-3.gif\" alt=\"\"  width=\"850\" height=\"150\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Enhancements in the 3D printing technology<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through this collaboration, some features will be added to the 3D printing system to expand its capabilities. For example, they announced the pairing of high-performance cameras with custom designed hardware to enable new robotics capabilities on the 3D printer. Some other developments will include dynamic intelligent responses for things such as parameter adjustment and error correction, automatic performance of post-processing treatments and object recognition just to name a few.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12064\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12064\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12064 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether1.jpg\" alt=\"aether\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/aether1-160x91.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Aether and P&amp;G joint development project will lay the groundwork for the future of 3D bioprinting. (Photo: Business Wire)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additionally, Aether hopes to develop additional software to automate image processing in the hope of providing a substantial increase in speed over manual processing methods. Advanced automation should provide a platform for 3D printing to reach an even wider range of applications and potential. For example, prototyping and scientific research could reach a higher speed than is currently possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you think of this new collaboration?\u00a0Let us know what you think in a comment below or on our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/3Dnatives\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3Dnatives_en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0pages!\u00a0Don\u2019t forget to sign up for our free weekly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/3d-printing-newsletter\/\">Newsletter<\/a>, with all the latest news in 3D printing delivered straight to your inbox!<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnati-after-content\" id=\"dnati-710732477\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/amcoe.org\/event\/design-for-additive-manufacturing-design-at-elevation\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"DfAM course-850&#215;150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1-600x106.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1-768x136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1-160x28.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" width=\"850\" height=\"150\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aether, the San Francisco-based startup offers AI-enhanced 3D bioprinting. As a matter of fact, it has just received a two-year joint agreement with Procter &amp; Gamble (P&amp;G), a multinational consumer goods giant. The two companies have announced they will work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6064,"featured_media":12062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12070,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12060\/revisions\/12070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}