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A Chat with an AI CAD Designer via ChatGPT
The release of OpenAi's ChatGPT has unleashed a wave of renewed interest in AI. How will this language-based AI affect 3D CAD design and 3D printing?
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3D Printing Food via Frugal Engineering
Purdue Professor Ajay Malshe challenged his students to design a 3D food printer to deposit almond butter — with stipulations: It needed to be just six to seven parts and completely...
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3D-Printed AUV Aims to Thwart Climate Change
The Yonder Deep team installed an entire suite of sensors in its AUV, versatile enough to withstand the frigid Arctic waters as well as the coastal waters of Southern California.
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2023
The first 3D-printed nano-alloy...plasma treatment increases plastic part value 10x...light-powered catalysts aid drug manufacturing...how to build better "soft" robots. Those are just a few...
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Here are the winners of the 2022 Medical Design Briefs’ Readers’ Choice Products of the Year.
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High-Power Electrostatic Actuators to Realize Artificial Muscles
It may be possible to use electrostatic actuators in artificial muscles thanks to research that made use of ferroelectric materials to create an electrostatic actuator that can generate a strong force at a low driving voltage.
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Bioprinted 3D Cardiac Patches Could Reverse Scar Formation After Heart Attacks
The system promotes myocardial regeneration after a cardiac event.
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3D Printing Patient-Specific Heart Replicas
MIT engineers have developed a method of 3D printing a soft, flexible, controllable replica of a patient’s heart that can mimic its opposite’s blood-pumping ability. The goal is to be...
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John Deere 3D-Prints Production Fuel Valves for Tractors
HP launched its new commercial Metal Jet S100 Solution in September 2022 and two months later showcased the 3D printer for the first time publicly at the Formnext exhibition in...
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3D-Printed Prostheses — Accessible and Affordable
This is a new process for the 3D printing of complete one-piece structurally sound prosthetic limbs.
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Aerospace Manufacturing - February 2023
Learn about advances in 3D printing of spacecraft, large-scale aerospace composites manufacturing, cutting tools for tomorrow's sustainable aircraft, and more in this compendium of recent articles from...
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3D Printing Sustainable Houses
Additive manufacturing is paving a new era in construction. 3D printing home construction technology enables building houses sustainably.
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Executive Roundtable: Additive Manufacturing
According to Grand View Research, the global additive manufacturing market size is estimated to reach $76.16 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 20.8 percent.
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A Divergent Approach to Vehicle Development and Production
Among the most intriguing vehicles on display at the 2022 Pebble Beach Concours D’ Elegance was a pair developed by an obscure brand, Czinger Vehicles, and its parent company,...
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Turbine Center Frame
The Clean Sky 2 program is made up of key industry players and subject matter experts along with academic research bodies across Europe.
Briefs Energy
New Heat Treatment Allows 3D-Printed Metals to Withstand Extreme Heat
An MIT-developed heat treatment aims to transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments.
Briefs Design
Detecting Counterfeit Parts with Additive Manufacturing
Researchers have developed a method of imprinting a hidden magnetic tag, encoded with authentication information, within manufactured hardware during the part fabrication process.
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D-Printed Sensors May Lead to Better Weather Research
Scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors — also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs) — for orbiting spacecraft.
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New HPC4EI Project to Create 'Digital Twin' Models for Aerospace Manufacturing
A partnership involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory aimed at developing “digital twins” for producing aerospace components is one of six new...
Special Reports Aerospace
Space Technology - January 2023
Read about robot construction workers on the moon, the first commercial space station, what's next for the James Webb Space Telescope, and much more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of...
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SPIE Photonics West 2023 Preview
The conference will showcase the latest innovations in lasers, photonics, optics, optoelectronics, biophotonics, biomedical optics, 3D printing, and more.
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Printed Thermoelectric Generators for Power Generation
Scientists have now developed three-dimensional component architectures based on novel, printable thermoelectric materials.
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
DIY Kits Enable Users to Build Their Own Peristaltic Pumps for Microfluidics
Users can download the design files to 3D print and assemble a customizable peristaltic pump.
Briefs Design
Low-Cost, Customized Prosthesis Using 3D Printing
A novel 3D printed prosthetic arm is more comfortable, flexible, and cheaper than a conventional prosthesis.
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Using Additive Manufacturing to Build Drone Components
Mechanical engineers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Global Security Directorate used computer-aided design and the latest additive manufacturing techniques to...
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