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Nikon’s move into additive manufacturing was not a sudden departure from cameras into fashionably futuristic territory, according to Hamid Zarringhalam, chief executive of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing. It reflects the company’s long industrial lineage, stretching from optics and glass through semiconductor lithography to today’s metal 3D printing ambitions. Zarringhalam spent more than three decades in Nikon’s […]

Cobra Golf, the Californian sports equipment brand, has expanded its metal 3D printed iron lineup with the launch of the 3DP MB and 3DP X models, broadening the company’s use of additive manufacturing across a wider range of golfer skill levels. The two new irons join the existing 3DP Tour set, creating a three-model family […]

At MMX 2025, Ben DiMarco, Technology Transition Director at America Makes, posed a question that resonated deeply across a room filled with additive manufacturing (AM) experts: “How can we trust...

AtomForm, a MOVA Group consumer and professional 3D printing hardware company, has unveiled the Palette 300, a 12-nozzle desktop 3D printer designed for high-speed, multi-color and multi-material printing. The system was announced on January 6, 2026, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where it is being exhibited at the MOVA Group booth in the LVCC […]

Airtech and Alpha Additive Create 3,000 lb LFAM StructureJanuary 6

The rise of high-speed, reliable desktop Material Extrusion and Vat Polymerization systems by Creality, Bambu, Elegoo, and Prusa Research, the onward march of Formlabs in Pro LPBF and VP, as...

Cobra has added two new golf clubs to its lineup. The 3DP MB and 3DP X. Both use 3D printing to make the clubs have “look and feel of forged...

The Maxwell Medical Group’s Dental Flight, the dental unit at Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB) in Alabama, is enhancing support for active-duty Airmen by expanding advanced oral surgery services and adopting digital dentistry tools. These upgrades allow the clinic to handle complex procedures in-house, improving efficiency and continuity of care for service members. The core […]

A team of researchers from Duke University and Penn State, led by Julia Oh, PhD, and Ibrahim Ozbolat, PhD, is using a 3D bioprinted lung model to study how influenza and bacteria interact in human lung tissue. Funded by a $3.2 million NIH grant over four years, the project aims to uncover why some co-infections […]

Japanese construction and engineering company Shimizu Corporation has unveiled a new spray-based 3D concrete printing system aimed at constructing large, curved, and reinforced structural components.  The system combines a nine-degree-of-freedom gantry robot with a material spray simulator, allowing engineers to verify material behavior before printing. This approach enables precise, automated fabrication of complex structural geometries […]

UK-based research organization Materials Processing Institute (MPI) has introduced a high-temperature X-ray Diffraction (XRD) system that allows researchers and industrial partners to study materials at temperatures up to 1600°C. This system enables real-time observation of phase transformations in ceramics, slags, minerals, and metal alloys under conditions relevant to industrial processes such as casting, kilns, and […]

3D printing software developer AMIS has partnered with a researcher from Turkey-based Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMU) to integrate a variable slice height algorithm into its AMIS Pro build preparation software. This development targets binder jetting processes and introduces adaptive slicing functionality within the software environment. Developed by Dr. Hasan Bas of OMU, the algorithm enables […]

Researchers from the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) have studied consumer reactions to an experimental food made from plant cell cultures and fruit by-products to assess its acceptance. Led by Simona Errico, Valentina Mastrobuono, Paola Sangiorgio, and Silvia Massa, the study centers on small edible spheres described as […]

As Vanesa Listek wrote, last year was a major turning point for additive manufacturing (AM), as the industry is working to sort itself out. Customers want proven use cases and...

Polymer additive manufacturing is seeing less investment, attention, and disruption than metal additive manufacturing currently. Less crucial for defense needs, it has of late had far fewer new entrants. But,...

Stratasys announced a new software partnership with Novineer to solve one of the long-standing challenges in industrial FDM 3D printing: knowing how a printed part will actually perform before it...

Scott Dunham models all the data at Additive Manufacturing Research. He has been predicting the growth of the 3D printing market in segments, materials, and applications for over a decade....

3dSynth, a new software platform for desktop 3D printing, is aiming to rethink how objects are designed for FDM printers by removing the need for traditional CAD models and slicing workflows. The tool generates printer-ready G-code directly from mathematical parameters, allowing users to design objects through generative effects rather than polygon meshes. Available as both […]

Stratasys has announced a partnership with Novineer to integrate Novineer’s toolpath-aware FDM performance simulation technology into GrabCAD Print Pro. The integration aims to reduce physical testing for safety-critical, load-bearing polymer parts by enabling engineers to predict part performance directly from printer toolpaths. The collaboration brings Novineer’s NoviPath simulation engine into Stratasys’ software ecosystem. The combined […]

Researchers at Woldia University in Ethiopia have published a peer-reviewed analysis in Springer Nature describing how artificial intelligence (AI) can design multifunctional nanomaterials that endure the severe thermal and radiation conditions of space. The study, titled AI-driven design of multifunctional nanomaterials in revolutionizing high-temperature, high-power solutions for space technology, shows how data-driven design can overcome […]