U.S. biotech startup BioBots sits at the intersection between computer science and chemistry. Its debut product, a desktop 3D printer for biomaterials, which was just demoed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY — printing Van Gogh’s ear in replica, no less — combines hardware, software and wetware. It’s the latter area where the core innovation sits, says co-founder Danny Cabrera.
The three infant boys were each near death. They were all on ventilators. All had airways so tiny that the breaths they tried to exhale couldn’t get out.
As a last-ditch effort to save their lives, doctors at the University of Michigan used a 3-D printer to produce small plastic stents that surgeons attached, just above the boys’ lungs, to prop the airways open.
In all three attempts, carried out since 2012, the procedure worked and the boys were able to breathe on their own. All three boys were able to go home—one for the first time.
The Israeli office of Autodesk Inc. has been collaborating with Massivit, an Israeli startup company, to 3D print elements of a car, the Strati. They have been working on a 3D model of the “Strati” – a car created and developed by Local Motors.
The collaboration will be displayed Monday during the main event of EcoMotion, a gathering of Smart Transportation innovators that will take place at the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv. Parts of the printed car will be introduced for the first time in Israel.
Design-focused software company Autodesk is teaming up with toy manufacturer Mattel to create a “new immersive experience” bridging the physical and virtual divide with 3D printing.
The new partnership will herald the launch of a range of new apps that will let users “design and customize” their own toys and see them through to creation, according to a press release.
The fist-sized piece of silver metal that houses the compressor inlet temperature sensor inside a jet engine is a part that’s bit obscure even for many aviation aficionados. Starting now, however, it’s becoming a symbol of one of the biggest changes sweeping jet engine design.
The housing for the sensor, known as T25, recently became the first 3D-printed part certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly inside GE commercial jet engines.
GE Aviation is currently working with Boeing to retrofit more than 400 GE90-94B jet engines – some of the world’s largest and most powerful - with the 3D printed part. The GE90 family of engines powers Boeing’s 777 planes.
In 1999, the music business was rocked — and not in the Ozzy Osbourne sense of the word — by the debut of Napster. The peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing service allowed Internet users to download songs and albums free of charge, upsetting the industry’s traditional business model. The casual theft of companies’ intellectual property (IP) became so widespread that the Recording Industry Association of America reported the legitimate sales of music fell by half, from US$14 billion in 1999 to $7 billion in 2014.
Autodesk today announced that its 3D printing investment fund has put $10 million into the developer of a 3D printing method said to be significantly faster than most of its competitors.
In a release, Autodesk said its $100 million Spark Investment Fund, which is aimed at “entrepreneurs, innovators, and startups who push the boundaries of 3D printing,” had invested the money in Carbon3D, a Silicon Valley startup that developed what’s known as Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP).
On its Web site, Carbon3D claims that CLIP technology is 25 to 100 times faster than traditional 3D printing methods.
The market for 3D printing continue to build momentum last year as 133,000 printers were shipped, indicating that the nascent manufacturing revolution has some legs.
According to a report from Canalys, those sales represented a 68 percent increase in 3D printers shipped. The result was $3 billion in revenues generated by printer sales as well as sales of associated materials.
Imprimer des organes en laboratoire : la formule semble étrange et l'idée irréaliste, et pourtant les avancées observées ces dernières années en bio-ingénierie sont frappantes au point d'envisager cette possibilité sérieusement. Aujourd'hui, plusieurs personnes dans le monde vivent déjà avec une trachée, une vessie ou un urètre bioartificiels, mais ce sont les techniques de bio-impression qui suscitent les attentes les plus fortes. En France, le laboratoire Inserm innovant Bio-ingénierie tissulaire cherche par exemple à développer des technologies Laser et de micro-fabrication dans le but d'imprimer des tissus in vitro et in vivo : un domaine de recherche entre sciences de la vie, ingénierie et chimie.
Three cofounders of Voxel8, a Harvard spinoff, are showing me a toy they’ve made. At the company’s lab space—a couple of cluttered work benches in a big warehouse it shares with other startups—a bright-orange quadcopter takes flight and hovers above tangles of wires, computer equipment, coffee mugs, and spare parts.
