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Researchers at MIT have developed a design framework that optimizes concrete structures while accounting for the physical limits of 3D printers. The research also reveals that printer hardware, not concrete, is the key bottleneck to achieving lighter structures. Concrete is the world’s most-used construction material and one of the single largest sources of carbon emissions.…
Swiss satellite and payload maker SWISSto12 has closed a $70 million (€61 million) Series C, funding it says will expand manufacturing as orders climb across commercial and government customers. The Series C lands after a stretch of steep revenue gains. SWISSto12 reported $140 million (€121 million) in 2025 revenue, and its cumulative contract value has…
Researchers at Concordia University have developed an inverse 4D printing of composites method for producing curved vertical-axis wind turbine blades from carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy. The process forms the blades on a flat mold, removing the need for tooling that matches the final curved geometry. The method, detailed in Polymer Composites by Emad Fakhimi and Suong…
Solukon, a German manufacturer of automated depowdering systems, has launched SPR-Pathfinder PRO, an upgraded software package for planning and simulating powder removal from complex laser powder bed fusion parts. The software is intended particularly for components with fine internal channels and densely packed surfaces. The PRO edition removes the previous voxel limit, increases the particle-simulation…
A new study in Science Advances finds that a rubbery material first engineered for 3D printing may resolve a problem that has long dogged materials science: producing printable elastomers that are simultaneously tough and durable. Researchers at EPFL’s Soft Materials Laboratory (SMaL) report that the same architecture giving their double network granular elastomers (DNGEs) exceptional…
Colorado-based defense company SkyDefense has introduced CobraJet, an AI-controlled vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed to detect, identify, track, and destroy hostile drones at speed. The autonomous multirole jet targets the growing threat that unmanned systems pose to critical infrastructure, borders, airports, military bases, and public venues. Inside the CobraJet Lineup The aircraft comes…
Insta360 and Bambu Lab’s MakerWorld have teamed up on the Luna Ultra Design Challenge, a global call for makers, designers, and creators to dream up fresh accessories, mods, and concepts for the Luna Ultra, Insta360’s flagship dual-lens 8K gimbal camera. The competition puts more than US$11,000 in prizes on the table, giving entrants a chance…
At sea, a broken component can’t simply be reordered and delivered the next morning. Some items take weeks to reach a deployed ship, and others are no longer produced at all. To ease that strain, the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), working alongside Combat Logistics Battalion 13 of the 13th Marine Expeditionary…
Designtech, Caracol, and LAMÁQUINA have partnered to open Milan’s first permanent hub dedicated to large-format robotic additive manufacturing (LFAM) for the design sector. According to the announcement, the space gives designers, studios, and brands ongoing access to large-scale robotic fabrication and engineering support, rather than a project-by-project service arrangement. The venture, announced July 8, 2026,…
Rocket engine manufacturer Ursa Major has finished its Solid Rocket Motor (SRM) Manufacturing Pathfinder Program, a joint undertaking with the U.S. Navy and the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC). The cost-share effort wrapped up on time in February 2026 and reflects a combined $25 million commitment from the three partners. The program’s conclusion marks the end…
The Modena-based firm CRP Group has introduced CRP UniqTrust, a digital identity platform built to tighten traceability and verification for parts made from its Windform additive manufacturing composites. The system was created together with Contatto Divino, a division of Pengo Idee Onlife that focuses on physical systems connecting high-value physical goods to digital ecosystems. The…
A newly launched research collaboration aims to bolster Australia’s advanced manufacturing base by putting a domestically produced titanium powder through its paces for high-value industrial use. The material in question, TiRO powder, is a titanium feedstock made via a process the developers describe as highly efficient and low in emissions. The A$677,000 program is headed…
Ceramics 3D printing supplier 3DCeram Sinto and French ceramic specialist Avignon Ceramic have released a video detailing their ceramic 3D printing partnership for producing cores used in aerospace investment casting. The video walks through how the two companies developed a joint process to produce ceramic cores with geometries that conventional injection molding cannot achieve. Avignon…
Creality Falcon, the laser engraving and cutting product line from desktop fabrication company Creality, has opened pre-orders for the Falcon A1C. The compact, enclosed laser engraver is aimed at first-time makers and home users, with prices starting at $199. The Falcon A1C combines a Class 1 fully enclosed design, interchangeable laser modules and automatic focusing…
iGM Resins, a Netherlands-based supplier of UV-curing materials, has launched Photomer SC91, a photoactive acrylate resin designed to reduce or eliminate separately added photoinitiators in UV mercury-lamp and UV LED curing systems. The company is positioning the new material for migration-sensitive UV formulations, including indirect food-contact packaging. Photomer SC91 integrates photoinitiating groups directly into its…
A newly patented pump from Sciperio, the R&D arm of nScrypt, is built to let additive manufacturing (AM) systems dispense materials with viscosities above 1 million centipoise, a range Sciperio says has been difficult for conventional dispensing systems to handle without defects. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Patent No. 12,654,396 B2 for…
FARO CREAFORM, a business unit of AMETEK, has introduced four new handheld 3D scanners to its HandySCAN 3D portfolio. The announcement, made July 8, 2026, covers two additions to the MAX Series and two new EVO Series models, spanning inspection tasks from small components to parts up to 15 meters long. The new MAX Series…
Adidas Basketball has revealed the BB.01, the opening product of Project: Radical Athlete Perception (R.A.P.) and the brand’s first performance basketball shoe built on the platform. Positioned as a new approach to making athletic footwear, Project: R.A.P. relies on additive manufacturing to tailor products to individual athletes and to the specific demands of a given…
Zenith Tecnica, a contract manufacturer that builds titanium parts using Electron Beam Melting (EBM), has confirmed a change of ownership and, in the same breath, kicked off a plan to enlarge its production capacity. The company serves the space and medical fields along with other technically demanding industrial customers. Its buyers are an ownership group…
Engineers at the University of Utah have shown off a 3D printing approach that sidesteps one of the format’s persistent weaknesses: the leaky seams left behind when an object is built up slice by slice. Rather than stacking layers, the technique relies on a nanoscale “mask” that bends laser light into a holographic version of…
Protolabs, a US-based digital manufacturing service provider, has expanded its CNC machining and Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) 3D printing capabilities for commercial and defense drone manufacturers. The company is targeting applications requiring rapid design changes, customized hardware, lightweight components, and low-volume production. The expanded offering combines quick-turn CNC machining for metal and plastic parts with…
Netherlands-based independent 3D printing resin manufacturer Liqcreate has launched Bio-Med Flex, a clear flexible photopolymer resin designed for sterilizable, biocompatible medical and biomedical applications. This matters because being able to meet this set of requirements in clinical prototyping labs has been quite difficult. Rigid biocompatible resins have been available long enough to become routine in…
A twelve-hour overnight print can turn out fine, or it can come back stringy and inconsistent with no change to the slicer settings that would explain why. The usual cause is moisture. A spool left in an open holder for a few humid days absorbs enough water to compromise a print without giving any warning…
Innov8 Hub has formed a strategic partnership with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Nigeria to set up a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics (STEAM) and 3D Printing Technology Centre in Abuja. The facility is intended to reinforce Nigeria’s technical infrastructure and widen access to applied, practice-based learning in emerging technologies. As part…
Digital manufacturing provider Protolabs has begun offering Medical White (MED-WHT 10), a biocompatible photopolymer, through its on-demand production services. The resin runs on Axtra3D‘s Lumia X1, a Hi-Speed SLA system built around the company’s Hybrid PhotoSynthesis (HPS) process, making it the fifth production-ready material in Protolabs’ Lumia X1 lineup. The launch comes as Protolabs operates…
Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab is launching a 48-hour community fundraising drive for Venezuela’s earthquake recovery, running from July 13 at 8:00 a.m. through July 15, 2026. During the window, customers on the company’s US and EU online stores can buy PLA Basic Refill spools in the colors of the Venezuelan flag, yellow (10400), blue…
Denver-based Beehive Industries has placed a multi-unit order for NXG 600E metal 3D printers from Nikon SLM Solutions, part of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing. The purchase is entirely self-funded and gives the company a capability that remains scarce in the United States: ultra-large-format laser powder bed fusion capacity. The NXG 600E is the biggest machine in…
Venus Aerospace has secured $91 million in Series B funding led by Houston-based venture capital firm Mercury Fund, with additional backing from Lockheed Martin Ventures, MESH, PEAK6, Starboard Star Venture Capital, Green Sands Equity, and other investors. The raise follows the company’s May 2025 milestone: the first successful flight test of a high-thrust rotating detonation…
3D foundation model developer Tripo AI has closed a $150 million Series A3 funding round, drawing investment from companies across the automotive, gaming, internet, and technology sectors. Geely Capital was among the automotive-side backers, joined by other strategic investors from that sector. Gaming companies 4399 Network, Tanwan, and Giant Network also joined the round, alongside…
Industrial 3D printing firm EOS has entered an agreement with aluminum alloy developer Constellium adding a new material to its lineup and rebranding an existing one as part of the collaboration. The German 3D printing systems maker will introduce Constellium’s Aheadd CP1 alloy under the name EOS Aluminium Constellium CP1, while its existing Al5X1 material…
The Tech Lab of Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has completed a six-meter-tall 3D printed model of an air traffic control tower, produced for the practice’s ZHAviation exhibition stand at Passenger Terminal Expo 2026 in London. Built from an original ZHA tower design, the installation ranks among the most technically demanding fabrication efforts the Lab has…
Ferrita Sweden AB is a Swedish company that develops and manufactures advanced technical solutions in sound attenuation, vibration, thermal insulation and exhaust gas purification, such as catalyst and particle filter purification. The metal additive manufacturing technology developed by Meltio—which involves using a laser to melt a metal wire using a welding technique—has been validated by…
Formnext Asia Shenzhen is adding a dedicated maker day and an international dealer matching session to its 2026 program, both aimed at communities that sit outside its traditional industrial exhibitor base. The event runs August 26 to 28, 2026 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center. Messe Frankfurt, which organizes the event, will present…
German medical startup BellaSeno has enrolled 30 patients across two Australian trials of a polycaprolactone breast scaffold designed to regenerate tissue without leaving a permanent foreign body. The 30 patients are spread across a first-in-human safety study that ran from 2021 to 2023 and enrolled 19 patients, and a pivotal trial launched in January 2026…
Auxilium Biotechnologies, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, has bioprinted kidney and liver tissue aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first time either tissue type has been manufactured in orbit. The tissues, along with cartilage and 28 nerve repair implants, were produced using the company’s AMP-1 bioprinting platform during Mission AXLM-3, which launched on SpaceX-34…
Additive Manufacturing Advantage: Aerospace, Space, and Defense 2026 is now live and in progress. Taking place online today, AMAA 2026 brings together leading voices from across aerospace, defense, space, advanced manufacturing, research, and industrial production to discuss how additive manufacturing is moving from promising technology into mission-critical applications. The free online event features presentations and…
George Mason University and North Carolina company Phase Inc. have been awarded a National Science Foundation STTR grant to develop a new class of 3D printed microfluidic devices. The goal is to carry the technology out of the research lab and into wider use, yielding a more dependable route to the tools that organ-on-a-chip development…
A pilot installation at Morningside Park in Miami is examining whether the concrete barriers lining South Florida’s shoreline can do more than hold back water. A team from Florida International University’s Institute of Environment has mounted a set of 3D printed tiles, produced at the university’s Robotics and Digital Fabrication Lab, onto an existing seawall.…
Interested in the future of manufacturing? Don’t miss Additive Manufacturing Advantage: Aerospace, Space and Defense 2026, taking place on July 9th. Mark your calendar and secure your spot at the event redefining what’s possible in aerospace, space, and defense manufacturing. Lincoln Electric, 130 years old and generating over $4 billion in 2024 revenue, entered the…
French nuclear energy business Framatome has inaugurated a 6,000 m2 additive manufacturing center in Romans-sur-Isère, France. The facility, which opened on July 2, produces metal components for the primary circuits of French nuclear reactors using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) systems supplied by Amsterdam-based MX3D. Named the Amiral Bernard-Antoine Morio de l’Isle Additive Manufacturing Center,…
Helsinki-based health technology firm CurifyLabs has closed a $14 million Series A round to grow its automated system for producing personalized medications. The round was co-led by Sandwater and HealthCap, with Tesi and existing backers including Lifeline Ventures joining, alongside participation from U.S. customers and employees. The company, which also operates out of Jacksonville, Florida,…
Portsmouth-based 3D print contract manufacturer AMufacture has called on the government to overhaul defense procurement, warning that slow, traditional purchasing processes could prevent UK manufacturers from delivering on the Defence Investment Plan’s (DIP) objectives. The response puts a specific industrial lens on a policy document that commits £5 billion to autonomous systems but leaves open…
Researchers at the University of California and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan have reported two 3D printing-enabled advances in energy storage: a zinc-ion hybrid battery that stores more than seven times the charge of comparable devices, and a low-cost, sealed test cell that delivers markedly more reliable lab measurements than the open-beaker setups most…
A project funded by the Department of Energy‘s NNSA DNN R&D program and based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has turned to additive manufacturing to produce pixelated plastic scintillator arrays, seeking to cut both the time and expense of fabricating these radiation-sensing components. The contribution from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), part…
A retired Air Force veteran and amputee Francine Goode has returned to the bowling lane with the help of a 3D printed tool built specifically for her by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The project began when a recreational therapist at the Perry Point VA Medical Center in Maryland spotted a shortfall in the adaptive…
Germany’s Fraunhofer ILT and Spanish machine-tool builder Etxetar have signed a memorandum of understanding to broaden the industrial applications of laser metal deposition (LMD) and extreme high-speed laser material deposition (EHLA). The agreement pools the research institute’s process knowledge with the company’s industrial engineering capabilities, aiming at sectors where regulatory change, high-value repair, and the…
British charity STAND has begun a pilot program in The Gambia that applies 3D scanning and printing to the production of prosthetic sockets, the custom-made part that joins an amputee’s residual limb to an artificial leg. The initiative, co-financed by the European Union, is intended to test whether digital fabrication can offer a quicker, simpler,…
3D scanner manufacturer Revopoint has launched the Trackit SR, a wireless, marker-free optical tracking 3D scanner with a stated single-frame accuracy of 0.02 mm. According to the company, the system is designed to address common constraints in traditional metrology workflows, including setup time, cabling, the application of marker points, and limited maneuverability around large or…
ASTM International‘s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence (AM CoE) has released a strategic guide addressing how additively manufactured (AM) parts are qualified and certified for defense use. The document, developed in partnership with the UK Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) through Project TAMPA, is available as a free download from amcoe.org. Certification requirements for AM…
Getting a biology experiment into space makes headlines; getting one back with cells intact and data uncontaminated is the part that actually takes years to figure out. Sebastian Feles, technical lead of the Aeromedical FabLab at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), opened his presentation on space additive manufacturing at our AMA: Aerospace, Space, & Defense…