The location — which is drive-thru only — is set to open Friday and makes Starbucks one of the nation’s few big retailers that have tinkered with 3D printing for commercial construction.

In the past 85 years, technology behind 3D printing has gotten far more sophisticated than a “wall building machine.” Today, 3DCP encompasses multiple methods, including powder bonding, additive ...

King and his colleagues used 3D printing to design a heat exchanger that includes features to optimize heat movement, like wavy walls and ... tends to involve building very thin walls between ...