AMA: Healthcare Printed to Fit: Carnegie University and the Rise of Personalized Medicine Through 3D Technology
3D printing is moving from engineering labs into everyday clinical practice, driven by innovators like Rand Kittani, founder of CIM3D at Carle Illinois. The lab has delivered patient‑specific solutions such as orbital‑fracture surgical guides, low‑cost breast prostheses, and custom orthopedic casts, demonstrating tangible cost and time savings. While FDA‑approved biocompatible materials have eased regulatory concerns, adoption remains hampered by affordability, limited awareness in medical education, and patient willingness to pay. Integration of AI for automated design promises to accelerate personalization and broaden the technology’s reach across surgical specialties.
AMA: Healthcare 2026: [Interview] A New Way to Fix Lumpectomy Deformities
GenesisTissue is developing a personalized, biodegradable breast tissue scaffold (RBT) that can be 3D‑printed to fill lumpectomy defects and support fat grafts. The scaffold maintains shape for three to six months, then fully degrades within a year, leaving regenerated adipose...
Recyclable Material Unlocks New Era for 3D Printing
Researchers at Yokohama National University have unveiled a photocurable anthracene‑based resin that can be printed, melted, and re‑printed more than ten times without any chemical additives. The step‑growth polymerization enables reversible photodimerization, allowing solidification with blue light and depolymerization at...
New Cedar Concrete 3D Printer: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Holcim and British International Investment’s joint venture 14Trees, together with India’s Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions, have launched the Cedar concrete 3D printer for large‑scale construction. The system can print structures up to 10 m high with a 240 sq m footprint and is built...
ETH Zurich Ignites Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine
A 20‑member student team from ETH Zurich’s Academic Space Initiative Switzerland ignited a liquid‑propellant rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) during a night test at Dübendorf Airfield in early April 2026. The test recorded three stable detonation waves rotating up to...
Hadassah Surgeons Used 3D Printing to Rebuild What Vanishing Bone Disease Took Away
Hadassah Hospital surgeons performed Israel's first reconstruction of a pelvis and femur destroyed by vanishing bone disease using two patient‑specific 3D‑printed implants. The 24‑year‑old patient, Mira, regained ambulation after a year‑long, staged procedure that restored bone geometry and lengthened her...
USC Researchers Print MRI Coils for a Fraction of the Cost
Researchers at USC's Viterbi and Stevens schools have created a silver‑ink MRI coil that can be printed in under ten minutes for roughly $30 in materials, a stark contrast to conventional coils costing $10,000‑$50,000. The printed coil delivers up to...
AMA: Healthcare 2026 Lynxter on Bringing Silicone 3D Printing Into Regulated Medical Production
Lynxter, a French elastomeric AM specialist, has taken its silicone extrusion platform from the lab into regulated medical‑device production. The company offers two printers—the modular S600D and the dedicated S300X—both featuring a dual micro‑dosing head that mixes silicone components and...
France Just Built Europe’s Largest 3D Printed Apartment Block, Three Months Faster Than Expected
France’s Bezannes social‑housing project, ViliaSprint², became Europe’s largest 3D‑printed apartment block, delivering 12 units across 800 m². The load‑bearing structure was printed on‑site in just 34 days, shaving three months off the schedule compared with a conventional build. The process required...
AMA: Healthcare 2026: What Is Driving 3D Printing in Dentistry Toward a $10BN Market Value?
Dentistry’s 3D printing market, valued at roughly $5.2 billion in 2024, is projected to approach $10 billion by 2033. Printer penetration in U.S. practices has risen to about 15%, up from virtually none a decade ago, while entry‑level system costs have collapsed...
NP Aerospace Produces Mastiff Suspension Carrier via WAAM, Cutting Lead Times by 50%
NP Aerospace, together with the Digital Manufacturing Centre, used Caracol’s Vipra AM platform to wire‑arc additively manufacture the Mastiff suspension and differential carrier—a 110 kg, load‑bearing component—for protected vehicles. The part was printed as a single piece in 60 hours without any tooling,...
India’s First Four-Engine Cluster Firing Marks New Frontier for Agnikul Cosmos
Agnikul Cosmos, the Chennai‑based private launch firm, successfully fired four semi‑cryogenic, 3D‑printed rocket engines in a synchronized cluster—the first such test in India. The test required eight electric pumps, eight motors and eight independent speed‑control algorithms to operate in perfect...
ROBOZE Acquires Dimanex to Wire the Physical and Digital Sides of Manufacturing Together
Italian robotics firm ROBOZE has purchased key assets of bankrupt Dutch platform Dimanex, merging Dimanex’s digital inventory tools with ROBOZE’s Pandora and SlizeR software. The combined solution, dubbed "Physical AI," links physical machines directly to cloud‑based inventory and decentralized supply‑chain...
3D Prod and Sculpteo Merge to Scale AM in France
French additive‑manufacturing firms 3D Prod and Sculpteo have merged, with 3D Prod acquiring Sculpteo from BASF. The combined company now employs 100 staff, serves over 7,000 clients in 61 countries, and runs two production sites in Vosges and Villejuif. It operates 78...
Penn State’s 3D Printed CaroFlex Device Opens a New Front in Drug-Resistant Hypertension
Penn State researchers unveiled CaroFlex, a soft 3‑D‑printed bioelectronic device that adheres to the carotid sinus and delivers gentle electrical signals to regulate blood pressure. In rodent trials the device reduced systolic pressure by more than 15% without causing tissue...
Tampere Team 3D Prints Bone-Like Ceramic That Guides the Body’s Own Repair
Researchers at Tampere University have engineered a 3D‑printed hydroxyapatite ceramic scaffold that mirrors the mineral composition and internal geometry of natural bone. The scaffold features 400 µm pores and roughly 45% porosity, creating a balance of mechanical strength and cellular accessibility...
CU Anschutz Researchers Reinvent the Denture: Faster, Smarter, and Built to Fight Bacteria
Researchers at CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine are pioneering multimaterial inkjet 3D printing to fabricate dentures as a single, monolithic piece. The new photo‑curable polymers promise higher durability, faster production and lower costs, while an embedded antimicrobial additive can...
TU Delft Researchers 3D Print Living Mycelium Materials with Growth-Driven Functionalization
TU Delft researchers have introduced a 3D‑printing workflow that embeds living Ganoderma lucidum hyphae in a cross‑linkable hydrogel ink, allowing the printed scaffold to grow and autonomously capture functional particles. By immersing the prints in particle‑laden media and using gelatin...
CU Boulder and Columbia Researchers Develop Bio-Inspired 3D Printed Earth Material
Researchers at CU Boulder and Columbia University unveiled a bio‑inspired framework that leverages sodium alginate to stabilize natural earth for 3D printing. The optimized 0.12% alginate mix accelerated printing speed by 33%, cut drying shrinkage 75% and boosted compressive strength...
Rocket Lab’s 3D Printed Engine Hits 1,000 Units
Rocket Lab announced that its Long Beach plant has produced the 1,000th Rutherford engine, the world’s first 3D‑printed, battery‑powered rocket engine. The milestone follows a decade of scaling from one unit per month to a target of roughly 200 engines annually....
K3D Adds Two MetalFab Systems as Metal AM Capacity Expands
K3D, a Dutch metal 3‑D printing service, added two Additive Industries MetalFab systems, raising its fleet to six machines across two sites and delivering nine additive‑manufacturing cores. The expanded capacity handles stainless steel 316L, aluminium AlSi10Mg and titanium Ti6Al4V, combining...
Carfulan Group Reports Nearly £1 Million In Orders At MACH
Carfulan Group secured nearly £1 million (≈$1.28 million) in new orders at the MACH exhibition, marking its strongest showing to date. The five‑day event generated 1,810 enquiries and featured UK firsts and product debuts across metrology, tooling, inspection and additive manufacturing. Managing...
University of Illinois Team Is Engineering the Fix for the AI Heat Crisis
Mechanical engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign have unveiled a copper cold‑plate cooling system that could cut data‑center cooling energy from over 30% to roughly 1.1% of total power. The solution merges topology‑optimization algorithms with electrochemical additive manufacturing (ECAM)...
AMA: Healthcare 2026: How to Overcome the Red Tape Sabotaging Medical Implant Innovation
At the AMA Healthcare 2026 event, Matthew Shomper of Not a Robot Engineering highlighted how 3D‑printed titanium orthopaedic implants still suffer from excessive stiffness, causing stress‑shielding and aseptic loosening. He traced the root cause to the FDA’s predicate‑device framework, which...
ORNL Combines 3D Printing and High-Pressure Processing to Reshape Large-Scale Metal Part Production
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have 3‑D printed the canisters used in powder metallurgical hot isostatic pressing (PM‑HIP), removing the need for welding, machining and forming. The printed canisters enable near‑final‑shape production of large metal parts, cutting waste and shrinking...
Skuld Patents Its Process to Cast Wrought Aluminum From Scrap
Skuld, a U.S. manufacturing firm, has filed a patent for its Additive Manufacturing Evaporative Casting (AMEC) process that can produce wrought‑grade aluminum alloys such as 6061 and 7075 directly from mixed‑metal scrap. The method combines AI‑driven spark testing to identify...
Imperial College London Researchers Develop Topology Optimization Framework for Nonlinear Mechanical Metamaterials
Imperial College London researchers introduced a density‑based topology‑optimization framework that inversely designs nonlinear mechanical metamaterial unit cells from prescribed stress‑strain targets. The workflow integrates internal contact, snap‑through buckling and bistability without relying on predefined geometries or large machine‑learning datasets. Using...
FLEETWERX Launches FLEET-X to Test How Critical Parts Can Be Made and Delivered in the Field
FLEETWERX is piloting the FLEET‑X experiment at Camp Roberts during JIFX 26‑3 to demonstrate rapid, field‑based manufacturing and unmanned delivery of critical military parts. The live exercise links the Naval Postgraduate School’s CAMRE consortium with industry partners such as Re:3D, Fieldmade,...
Apollo Automobil’s Dragon Skin Exhaust Pushes Hypercar AM Forward
Apollo Automobil has introduced the Dragon Skin exhaust, a fully 3D‑printed, single‑piece titanium system for its track‑only EVO hypercar. The exhaust, printed in 123 hours using laser powder bed fusion and aerospace‑grade TA15 alloy, features a ceramic coating that tolerates...
TANIOBIS Enables Patient-Specific Implants With Tantalum and Niobium Alloys
German materials firm TANIOBIS has expanded its AMtrinsic powder line to include tantalum‑niobium alloys, positioning them as a biocompatible alternative to the titanium‑6Al‑4V alloy that dominates orthopedic and dental implants. The new powders are optimized for laser‑based additive manufacturing, enabling...
New Study: Architecture Targets the Core Bottleneck in Battery Manufacturing
A new study in Materials Science & Engineering R shows that 3‑D printing can move from prototype to mainstream lithium‑battery production by leveraging print‑defined architecture to boost active‑material utilisation to 80‑90% at 1 C, far above the 50‑70% of conventional slurry‑cast electrodes....
A Low-Power Path to Mars Radiation Shielding Made With Innovative 3D Printed Basalt Structures
AAKA Space Studio in Ahmedabad 3D‑printed a radiation shield using olivine‑rich basalt from Salem and limestone from Ariyalur, creating a high‑fidelity Martian soil analogue. The shield, built with MiCO‑V concrete printing system, demonstrated both cosmic‑radiation attenuation and thermal stability during...
DMG MORI Launches LASERTEC 65 DED Hybrid 2 for Additive and Subtractive Metal Manufacturing
DMG MORI UK has unveiled the LASERTEC 65 DED hybrid 2, a second‑generation production centre that merges directed energy deposition (DED) with 5‑axis machining, measurement and 3D scanning in a single setup. The machine delivers a 35% faster build rate and a 170%...
Singapore Researchers Outline Advances Shaping Biofabrication and Biomanufacturing
Singapore’s leading universities and research institutes have published a comprehensive review that maps the nation’s recent breakthroughs in biofabrication and biomanufacturing, spanning waste‑derived biomaterials, electrospinning, 3D bioprinting, metal additive manufacturing, and cultivated food. The authors argue that the historic divide...
Lockheed Martin Scales LPBF for Thermal Management Parts in Hypersonic and Aircraft Systems
Lockheed Martin has expanded its laser powder‑bed fusion (LPBF) additive‑manufacturing capability with a new 16,000‑square‑foot facility in Texas, partnering with EOS, Sintavia, Nikon SLM and nTop. The center focuses on producing thin‑walled thermal‑management components for next‑generation aircraft, hypersonic weapons and electric‑propulsion...
Evaporation-Driven Droplet Fission Study Points to Nanoscale Fabrication Potential
Researchers at KAUST, OIST, and the Max Planck Institute demonstrated that ordinary pipetted water droplets on a silicone‑oil‑lubricated surface can acquire about +70 pC of charge and undergo more than 60 successive Coulomb fission events over a 30‑minute period. The lubricant...
3D Printed Silicone Lattice Mixes Antifungal Resistance with Vibration Isolation
Researchers at Jiangnan University and Jiangda Vibration Isolator have created a 3D‑printed silicone rubber lattice infused with 1–5 wt % hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). The lattice demonstrates near‑zero fungal growth—under 0.8 % coverage at 5 wt % hBN—while maintaining high compression resilience and vibration‑isolation efficiency...
New Framework Could Standardize 3D Printed Construction in Earthquake Zones
Researchers at IIT Guwahati have experimentally validated a design framework for 3D‑printed concrete walls that can withstand seismic loads. The study tested three wall variants, including a ductile concrete mix reinforced with modular steel, and demonstrated compliance with Indian and...
Researchers Develop Sub-Second Volumetric 3D Printing Method Using Holographic Light Fields
Researchers at Tsinghua University introduced DISH, a volumetric 3D printing method that can create millimeter‑scale polymer parts in just 0.6 seconds. By projecting holographically optimized light fields through a high‑speed rotating periscope, the technique eliminates the need to rotate the...
RAPID + TCT 2026: HP’s New MJF 1200 and Multi-Platform Updates
HP unveiled the MJF 1200, its smallest Multi Jet Fusion printer with a 12‑liter build volume, slated for early 2027 release and bundled with Materialise’s Magics Print software. The existing 5600 series received a High Productivity mode boosting output 20%...
Nikon AM Synergy Secures New DLA Supply Chain Contract
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency awarded Nikon AM Synergy a contract under the JAMA IV IDIQ Pilot Parts Program, making the firm a direct additive‑manufacturing supplier for defense components. The pilot will test whether 3‑D printed parts can replace traditional production...
The New All Rounder Revopoint POP 4 3D Scanner Now on Kickstarter: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Revopoint has launched the POP 4 handheld 3D scanner on Kickstarter, pricing early‑bird units at $579, a 37% discount to the planned $919 retail price. The device combines five scanning modes—including dual blue‑laser lines and near‑infrared structured light—to capture shiny, dark,...
Euler Gives Metal AM Operators Free Real-Time Build Visibility
Euler, an Icelandic startup, launched Euler Viewer, a free browser‑based tool that streams live layer images from laser powder‑bed fusion (LPBF) metal 3D printers. The platform requires no additional hardware or connection to the printer’s control PC, and is built...
How Anthropic’s New Claude Connectors to 3D Design Tools Close the AM Coordination Gap
Anthropic unveiled eight Claude AI connectors that let users control Autodesk Fusion, Blender, SketchUp and other 3D design tools via natural‑language conversation. The connectors automate geometry creation, modification, and file handoffs, addressing the long‑standing coordination gap in additive manufacturing pipelines....
SWISSto12 Contracts HPS/LSS for Deployable Antenna Reflector on HummingSat GEO Mission
Swiss satellite‑communications firm SWISSto12 has awarded German consortium HPS/LSS a contract to build a 5‑meter deployable L‑band antenna reflector for its NEASTAR‑1 mission on the HummingSat GEO platform. The reflector will unfold in orbit, enabling direct‑to‑device media broadcasting from a...
Can Elegoo’s Latest 500M Yuan Round Counter the “Bambu Effect”?
Chinese 3D‑printer maker Elegoo closed a B+ financing round of over 500 million yuan (about $73 million), led by Meituan and backed by several capital firms. The capital will fund senior hires, R&D, supply‑chain upgrades and global expansion as the company pushes...
Lightbridge Secures European Patent Allowance for 3D Printed Multi-Zone Nuclear Fuel Design
Lightbridge Corporation received a Notice of Allowance from the European Patent Office for its Multi‑Zone Fuel Element, extending patent protection across 39 European states including the UK, France and Germany. The design features three radial zones of differing materials whose...
America Makes Launches Two Additive Manufacturing Project Calls Worth $25.6M
America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining announced two additive‑manufacturing project calls totaling $25.6 million. The $12.4 million MIAMI initiative will test whether metal AM parts can replace traditional alloys in Department of War weapon systems, with three...
Rosswag to Install Eplus3D System Under New Metal AM Partnership
Rosswag Engineering, Eplus3D, and powder supplier qualloy signed an MOU to develop next‑generation metal additive‑manufacturing systems. Rosswag will install Eplus3D’s EP‑M550 MPBF machine, featuring a 550 × 550 × 450 mm build envelope and eight lasers, in its new German AM facility, with customer testing...
Titomic Receives Iowa State University Order for ISB-11 Cold Spray System
Titomic Limited, an Australian cold‑spray additive‑manufacturing firm listed on the ASX, secured a purchase order from Iowa State University for its 623 ISB‑11 Integrated Spray Booth system. The turnkey platform will enable the university’s researchers and students to conduct materials research,...