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Additive manufacturing (AM) company Arc Impact is promoting Digital Casting Services, a workflow that pairs simulation with 3D printed sand molds and cores to help defense and government programs manufacture complex castings with fewer failed pours. The company positions the offering as a way to recover obsolete or hard-to-source parts and bring idle equipment back…

A US joint-branch effort deployed a SPEE3D cold spray metal printing system aboard the Canadian support vessel MV Asterix during RIMPAC 2026, marking the first at-sea use of the technology. The exercise examined whether mission-critical replacement parts could be manufactured at the point of need rather than sourced through a conventional supply chain. The work…

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (UMaine ASCC) is partnering with Maine nonprofit Penquis to produce up to nine 3D printed homes in the Greater Bangor area, marking the university’s first move from a single demonstration house toward a repeatable housing manufacturing system. The project, announced August 26, 2026, comes four years…

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have developed a new approach to finger and hand prosthetics that integrates four previously separate disciplines, hybrid materials, bioprinting, smart sensors and mechanical design, into a single customizable device. The work, led by a team of researchers across RIT’s Rochester and Dubai campuses, was published in the Journal…

Czinger Vehicles has unveiled the 21C Spyder, an open-top variant of its 21C hypercar built with heavier use of 3D printing than any previous version. Priced from $2.75 million and limited to 30 units, the Spyder is 23% additively manufactured by Czinger’s count, using processes developed by Divergent Technologies. Each unit is hand-assembled at Area…

A research team from Hannover Medical School, RWTH Aachen University, Technical University Darmstadt and the University of Twente has developed an additive manufacturing-based design framework for artificial lungs that uses triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) membranes in place of conventional hollow fiber bundles. Published in Advanced Materials, the study combines simulations, printable silicone materials and…

Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) is using Markforged Onyx GF to produce color-coded tooling for its multi-model automotive production operations. The material is being used to make variant-specific jigs easier for operators to identify while providing greater durability than previously used ABS parts. SIA runs multiple vehicle models simultaneously, creating situations where similar tools may…

Anyone who’s spent half an hour sticking reflective dots across a car hood before firing a single scan line knows the frustration. On a vintage Porsche awaiting restoration, those markers can’t touch original paint. Museum artifacts prohibit them entirely. The markers aren’t the point of the job, but until now, there’s been no way around…

Hi3D, the browser-based AI model generation platform built on its proprietary Sparc3D engine, has launched Hi3D V3.0, an AI 3D generation model the company describes as the first commercially available version to reach 2048³ voxel resolution.  The update centers on three areas: geometric detail, structural accuracy, and texture output. Finer Detail and Structural Accuracy At…

Fitting a motor and battery into a robot shrinks fast as the robot gets smaller, and at microgram scales it becomes close to impossible. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have proposed a way around that limit: powering small robots with sound instead of onboard mechanical components, opening a path…

Boston headquartered shoe company Reebok has reworked a 1990s sneaker using 3D printing, teaming up with former NBA player Allen Iverson and 3D printing footwear company Zellerfeld. The original shoe, called The Question, launched in 1996 and referenced Iverson’s nickname “The Answer.” It became a streetwear favorite following his rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers,…

Copenhagen-based ATLANT 3D has launched NANOFABRICATOR PRO, a platform the company describes as the world’s first and only physical system linking AI-driven materials discovery to atomic-scale fabrication, experimental validation, and device prototyping. The launch addresses a gap the company has identified in materials research: AI models can now predict promising new materials, but testing whether…

Chicago-based 3D printing quality assurance software developer Phase3D has received a contract award from the Department of the Air Force to extend its Fringe Inspection platform, a real-time, in-situ inspection system for metal additive manufacturing (AM), into ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). The Phase I effort will fund development work supporting propulsion, hypersonic, and thermal-protection programs…

Continuum Powders, a metal powder producer for additive manufacturing (AM), and Mastrex, which builds laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) systems, have partnered to test, tune processing parameters, and validate Continuum’s powders on Mastrex’s MX series machines. The goal of this partnership is to shorten the path from choosing a powder to running it reliably on…

A team at BITS Pilani’s K.K. Birla Goa Campus has developed a 3D printable hydrogel from pharmaceutical-grade polymers and used it to print both skin tissue scaffolds and customized chewable drug tablets.  Published in the Journal of Biological Engineering, the hydrogel combines three ingredients already used in drug manufacturing. Starch 1500 (a modified maize starch…

America Makes has selected General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to lead a $5.5 million program developing material allowables for a scandium-aluminum alloy across three classes of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) 3D printers. Funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War’s Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech), the program is called Generation Of…

AM North, a Norwegian additive manufacturing company, has adopted amsight‘s production-level quality management software, cutting documentation work per project from roughly eight hours to 1.5–2 hours, according to Quality Magazine. The move addresses a scaling problem in AM North’s certified production process, where quality evidence had been compiled manually across Excel, Word, PDFs and paper…

Dutch 3D concrete printing company Vertico has completed its largest installation to date, deploying a full two-component (2K) printing system at the facility of Portuguese precast manufacturer Sirolis – Prefabricados de Betão, S.A. The system pairs a 3.2-meter extended ABB robot arm with a 6.7-meter track and raised carriage, mounted directly on top of a…

Formnext Asia Shenzhen will open on 26 August 2026 as its biggest edition to date, spanning 20,000 sq.m. of Hall 15 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center and hosting 330 exhibitors over three days. Pre-registration data released ahead of the show points to strong momentum with international visitor sign-ups climbing over 50% compared…

Bosch‘s manufacturing consulting arm Bosch Industry Consulting and German metal 3D printer manufacturer Nikon SLM Solutions have produced a complete V8 engine block as a single 3D printed piece in aluminum, using the NXG XII 600 metal additive manufacturing system at the Bosch Additive Solution Center in Nuremberg, Germany. The block was built in AlSi10Mg,…