The Stratasys Objet500 Connex3 3D printer has been demonstrated to gorgeous effect by designer and engineer Dr Michaella Janse van Vuuren. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

A new open-source tool is reshaping how engineers design multi-material objects. Charles Wade, a Ph.D. student in the ...

ExAM 510 multi-material printer. Photo Credit, all images: AIM3D GmbH AIM3D (Rostock, Germany), a manufacturer of multi-material 3D printers, has developed a 3D printer for the composite extrusion ...

Snapmaker is known for its multipurpose maker machines that mark a different path to other mainstream 3D print manufacturers. Their Snapmaker 2.0 and Artisan models combine 3D printing, laser cutting ...

What are the challenges and applications for this emergent technology in additive manufacturing? Ramsey Stevens, CEO of nano3Dprint, offers his take on the topic. Multi-material 3D printing enables ...

Thanks to an innovative extension to 3D printing, researchers can create high-performance, low-weight “unbuildable” RF structures that combine dielectrics and patterned conductors. The benefits and ...

When you zoom in on a fractal you find it is made of more fractals. Perhaps that helped inspire the Harvard 3D printers that have various arrays of mixing nozzles. In the video below you can see some ...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Panasonic Factory Solutions Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Panasonic), and Singapore Centre for 3D Printing (SC3DP) have developed ...

Ordinarily, when using an off-the-shelf 3D printer, it's quite difficult to print a single object that incorporates multiple materials. An experimental new system could make it easier, though, by ...

This week, a new 3D printer allows quick shifting between many materials, and understanding the link between gut microbes and liver disease. Your browser does not ...