This is additive manufacturing, often called 3D printing. It’s moved from just making quick models to creating actual, usable ...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the term coined by Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, to describe the fourth major industrial era since the first ...

As one of the most hyped technologies of the last few years, 3D printing has received great attention. But did you know that it has a ‘bigger brother’, so to speak, in additive manufacturing. 3D ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's robotic prosthesis looks like something out of medieval times—a hand clad in chain mail more appropriate for wielding a broadsword than a mug of coffee. Both the ...

A research group led by Professor Cheng Jian at Tsinghua University has 3D-printed a solid, millimetre-scale object in 0.6 ...

For approximately 40 seconds of his speech, Barack Obama recognized the power of 3D printing, with the president’s words being forever immortalized by the French digital artist Gilles Azaro in a very ...

It’s easy to see from the many types of available systems and the innovative technologies being developed that additive manufacturing (AM) is an extremely active area. Although operating details vary ...