Low-Cost 3D-Printed Stethoscope for Low-Resource Areas
Scientists at the University of Western Ontario have developed a 3D-printed stethoscope. The device costs just $3 to produce and takes less than three hours to print.
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The Quest to Bring 3-D-Printed Homes to the Developing World
IN THE LOW-SLUNG hills of El Salvador, building a house is not an easy task. The land is vulnerable to earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruptions. The roads are rugged, electricity sparse.
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3D printed 316L marine grade stainless steel offers strength and ductility
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in 3D printing 316L, a common form of marine grade stainless steel that promises an unparalleled combination of high-strength and high-ductility properties.
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This robot-run 3D printing farm is the future of light manufacturing | ZDNet
A 3D printing farm in Brooklyn needed to scale up to handle large production runs and better compete with injection molding.
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World’s first 3D-printed bridge opens to cyclists in Netherlands
Dutch officials have toasted the opening of what is being called the world’s first 3D-printed concrete bridge, which is primarily meant to be used by cyclists.
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HP to move into metal 3D printing in 2018
HP has stated its plans to expand into metal 3D printing as early as next year.
Hoping to repeat the “disruptive value proposition” of its proprietary Multi Jet Fusiontechnology, the company outlined its plans to venture into the additive manufacturing industry’s fastest growing market
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3D Printing of Biomaterials Directly Onto Moving Body | Medgadget
At the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Vancouver, Canada this week, researchers from the University of Minnesota are presenting a system that 3D prints objects directly onto a moving human body.
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A robot implants 3D-printed teeth in a Chinese patient | ZDNet
A robot performed autonomous dental implant surgery on a patient for the first time last week. The hour-long surgery, which took place in Xian, Shaanxi province, China, was performed without intervention from medical staff, who were on hand in case something went wrong.
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3D-Printed Robotic Arm for Sign Language Translation |
A team of engineers at the University of Antwerp in Belgium has developed a 3D-printed robotic arm that can act as a sign language translator for deaf people.
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3D Printing of Living Artificial Tissues | University of Bristol
A team from the University of Bristol’s School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, together with scientists at the University of Oxford, has developed a new method to 3D-print stem cells to form complex living 3D structures.
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The spread of 3D models creates intellectual-property problems
GROOT, a character from Disney’s film “Guardians of the Galaxy”, is usually mass-produced by the entertainment company as a small, collectable figurine and sold by retailers such as Toys “R” Us.
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