Roughly 170 practitioners in robotic large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) attended the inaugural Addidex Connect event, held on June 30 and July 1, 2026 at 3D Makers Zone in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The two-day gathering was organized around robotic additive manufacturing (AM) workflows, bringing together designers, engineers, software developers, material specialists, researchers, machine builders and production…
A technique that 3D prints an entire object at once, instead of building it up layer by layer, has a heat problem. Researchers at the University of Nottingham, working with the University of California, Berkeley, say they’ve found a fix. The method in question forms a complete object in seconds by shining patterned light into…
Designer Laura Civetti wants clothing to stop being something the body simply wears and start being something it collaborates with. Her latest project, Adaptive System, is a “data-driven clothing research methodology” that folds physiological and biomechanical data, sweating, posture, skin sensitivity, curvature, sun exposure, into the design of a garment, then reproduces the result with…
The Utrecht-based filament maker Polymaker has launched HT-PLA Pro, a tougher version of its heat-stable HT-PLA filament aimed squarely at the two complaints that have followed high-temperature PLA since it first reached desktop printers: it snaps too easily, and its layers don’t always hold together under load. Polymaker says the new material more than doubles…
Indian private rocket company Skyroot Aerospace‘s Vikram-1 reached orbit on July 18 powered in part by a cluster of 3D printed engines, a detail that turns India’s first private orbital launch into a milestone for additive manufacturing as much as for spaceflight. The rocket’s fourth stage, a liquid-propellant Orbital Adjustment Module, ran on Raman-1 engines…
The Advanced Technologies in Design and 3D Printing Unit (UTADI 3D) at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid has become the first public unit in Spain to hold a dual manufacturing license and dual certification, one for design, one for manufacturing, for each family of custom medical devices. The recognition follows an expansion of…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has retrieved the fifth sample produced by the first metal 3D printer ever sent to space, and prepared the machine for its next print run later this year. Adenot is flying ESA’s εpsilon mission aboard the International Space Station, where the printer, a technology demonstrator delivered by ESA in 2024, has…
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have built a 3D printed flow battery cell that costs around £75 to make, against the £2,000–£3,000 a commercial lab-grade equivalent typically runs, and are giving the design away for free to labs worldwide. Dr Hugh O’Connor and Dr Josh Bailey, from the university’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,…
GKN Aerospace and RTX’s Pratt & Whitney have signed a Technology Development Agreement to additively manufacture a large-scale engine case for the F135, the engine that powers the F-35 Lightning II. Announced at the Farnborough Air Show on 20 July 2026 and backed by the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA), the program targets a first…
A generative AI platform focused on 3D content Meshy has closed a Series B of nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, labeled as the largest round raised by a company built specifically for AI 3D generation and the company’s first publicly disclosed valuation. The round drew participation from every existing investor alongside new…
Miami-based Kind Designs, which 3D prints concrete seawalls designed to function as marine habitat, has closed a $10 million Pre-Series A at a $70 million valuation, doubling a round it originally set at $5 million after investor interest reached nearly $20 million. The company has now raised $21.5 million in total. NBA forward Kyle Kuzma…
Hexagon‘s Portable Metrology Division has introduced a reverse engineering workflow for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) teams that connects its ATLASCAN Pro handheld 3D scanner directly to Geomagic Design X software. The company says the combination lets engineers rebuild a CAD model up to eight times faster than with mainstream CAD tools, addressing a common…
Florida-based medical seating company Kalogon has launched Verro, a Medicare-coded custom wheelchair cushion line for people with significant postural support needs, including windswept posture, pelvic obliquity, or asymmetry. The line addresses a gap seating specialists have identified: while multi-density and contoured cushions exist, they lack the precise, body-conforming fit needed by wheelchair users with the…
If you’ve ever tried to produce a full-color figurine or a one-off branded product on a desktop 3D printer, you already know the routine. You print in a single color, then spend hours hand-painting, curing, sealing, and hoping the finish doesn’t look like a craft project. Most desktop 3D printers produce stunning geometry, but color…
Sinterit, a Polish manufacturer of selective laser sintering systems, has partnered with polymer post-processing specialist DyeMansion to offer an integrated printing, vapor smoothing and coloring workflow for compact industrial SLS users. Under the agreement, Sinterit will sell DyeMansion’s VX1 vapor smoothing system directly to its customers. It can also supply the DM60 coloring system and…
Lithoz, an Austrian ceramic 3D printing company, has reported a 40% year-over-year increase in ceramic material revenue at the end of the second quarter of 2026. The company attributed the growth to rising production volumes among Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) contract manufacturers and increased adoption in medical technology applications. Consequently, Lithoz has revised its revenue…
A few degrees at the nozzle can decide whether a 3D printed aluminum part comes out sound or riddled with pores. That is the central finding of a new study from The University of Manchester, published in Materials & Design, which pins down how the thermal conditions of molten metal deposition (MMD) govern defects and…
Researchers from four Italian universities have developed a digital workflow for producing patient-specific upper-limb prosthetic sockets with spatially graded lattice structures. Combining 3D scanning, finite element analysis, elastic-plastic homogenization and Field-Driven Design, the method adjusts lattice strut diameter according to local mechanical loads. The resulting design had a reported weight of 373 g, 25.4% below…
A Weibo post from tipster Fixed Focus Digital claims Apple has not finalized the hinge manufacturing technology for its first foldable iPhone, widely expected to be called the iPhone Ultra. The company is reportedly weighing liquid metal against 3D printing, with a decision expected by the end of July. But the claim sits uncomfortably against…
Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing a reference material, a carefully engineered zirconia slurry, to help ceramic 3D printing produce consistent, reliable parts. The problem it targets is deceptively basic: the wet ceramic feedstocks used to print are notoriously hard to measure accurately, and without a trustworthy way…
