Makers Making Change, an initiative of Canadian nonprofit Neil Squire, has partnered with Bambu Lab and six accessibility organizations working with 3D printing to launch Make for Good, a global design challenge focused on assistive technology. Hosted on Bambu Lab’s MakerWorld platform, the challenge will invite designers and 3D printer users to develop devices addressing…
Nike unveiled a one-of-one speed suit for middle-distance runner Keely Hodgkinson on September 18, 2026, built for her signature 800-meter event, and the design’s core aerodynamic feature is 3D printed: color-shifting, delta-shaped vortex generators positioned across the suit to reduce drag where it matters most on her body. Nike describes them as the fastest vortex…
HeelBase has started taking pre-orders for DRIVE, a 3D printed insole developed for pickleball, which the company describes as the world’s first 3D printed insole designed specifically for the sport. DRIVE is priced at US$59 per pair during the pre-order period, down from a listed regular price of US$99. The product is an example of…
Chinese 3D printing developer Addireen has released the XH-M350G-2HR, the third generation of its green-laser metal additive manufacturing system, aimed at moving pure-copper printing from prototyping into stable series production. The machine targets three production problems: build efficiency, stability during long runs, and part consistency across a fully loaded build plate. The 350 × 350…
City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and the University of Cambridge have established the Centre for Advanced and Smart Manufacturing (CASM), a Hong Kong research centre that uses additive manufacturing as its core technology platform. CASM will apply 3D printing to four application areas: data centre cooling, next-generation refrigeration, lightweight new energy vehicles and materials…
Hi3D, the browser-based AI model generation platform built on its proprietary Sparc3D engine, has launched Hi3D Agent, an AI agent for 3D creation that combines large language model reasoning with the company’s own 3D generation model. The tool is designed to take users from a first generated model through to practical applications, including preparing files…
Taiwanese resin 3D printer maker Phrozen has launched the Sonic Mighty Revo 16K MAX, a 14-inch 16K large-format MSLA printer aimed at creators, studios and print service providers taking on bigger, longer resin jobs. Priced at $1,600 and now available in the United States, the Revo MAX adds dual heating, a 2-litre resin vat, quick-release…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Boeing have produced a steel Stamp Form Die (SFD) mold using wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM). The tool stands 6 feet tall, measures 4 feet wide, weighs close to 2 tons, and took eight weeks to print. Boeing will use it in its work for NASA‘s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing…
Twenty-three 3D printed artificial reefs now sit on the Atlantic seabed at depths of up to 1,100 metres, placed there by a Franco-Irish research team testing whether additive manufacturing can speed the recovery of cold-water coral habitats damaged by bottom trawling. The structures were deployed in August from L’Atalante, a research vessel of the French…
When I first travelled to Formnext Shenzhen in 2023 I saw a familiar pattern, the show tells you what China’s additive-manufacturing industry wants to sell. Go outside the show and you can start finding out what is actually being made. At Huafast’s Shenzhen operation, 5,600 Bambu Lab machines form part of a 15,000-printer production network.…
Radian Forge, a Virginia-based maker of large metal components using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), has closed a $2.5 million Series Seed Preferred round. Veteran Ventures Capital (VVC) led the round through its Fund II, announced on September 15, 2026. The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) and Radian Forge’s existing investors also took part. The…
IperionX has validated GenX, a continuous version of its patented HAMR titanium powder process. Every spherical powder sample it produced met the Grade 23 oxygen specification, the extra-low-interstitial grade widely used to print medical and aerospace parts. Spherical titanium powder is the standard feedstock for powder bed fusion and other metal additive manufacturing processes, and…
Snapmaker, a manufacturer of desktop fabrication equipment, has opened the beta version of Snapmaker Space, a platform for discovering, sharing and printing multicolor and multimaterial 3D models. The service combines a model library with prepared print profiles for toolchanger 3D printers such as the Snapmaker U1. More than 2,500 models with U1 print profiles were…
Site preparation is advancing at Bambu Lab’s planned 3D printing manufacturing headquarters in Shenzhen, where the company intends to create production capacity for more than three million 3D printers per year. Bambu Lab’s enormous new manufacturing base in Shenzhen is beginning to move from an industrial land deal toward a physical construction project. A notice…
Formnext expects around 800 exhibitors in Frankfurt this November, with China now by far the largest foreign exhibitor group. Organisers say domestic competition, industrial policy and geopolitical barriers are pushing Chinese additive manufacturing companies towards Europe, while the show itself expands into defence and a more application-led format. China’s rapidly expanding additive manufacturing industry is…
Earlier this week, Creality opened a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for the SPARKX i8, a multi-color 3D printer that feeds four filaments through a single toolhead. The campaign went live on Monday, September 21, 2026. The early-bird price is $309, 23% below the $399 manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) that applies once the campaign ends.…
Sheffield-based Instruct3D has commercially launched Additive Build Intelligence, a combined software and sensor system for metal additive manufacturing (AM). The system is designed to help users predict where build issues may occur, review what happened during each print, and produce evidence that supports part verification. It draws on more than two decades of AM research…
Australian metal additive manufacturing (AM) company AML3D has joined a three-year research and development (R&D) project that aims to qualify its Wire-Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAM) process for aerospace tooling production. The company is one of several industry and research participants, a group that includes a global aerospace prime whose name has not been disclosed. Together,…
Austal USA Advanced Technologies has placed an initial production order with AML3D for three large copper-nickel (CuNi) fluid control components destined for US Navy nuclear submarines. The contract, worth roughly AU$0.5 million (about US$358,000), covers high-pressure parts previously made through conventional methods, which will now be built using AML3D’s wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAM) process. The…
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a camera-based inspection system that uses AI and machine learning (ML) to check 3D printed parts while they are still being made. Existing ML approaches for monitoring additive manufacturing (AM) processes have focused mainly on detecting and classifying defects, rather than measuring a part’s actual geometry…
