Interesting Engineering

New knitting machine weaves solid 3D forms, adding stitches in any direction

A team from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon has created a knitting machine that constructs solid 3D shapes by adding stitches in ...

This spider-like robot was built to print 3D homes on the moon

Charlotte, a spider-like 3D printing robot, was developed jointly by Australian companies Crest Robotics and Earthbuilt Technology. Developers said the robot can help make construction cheaper and ...

A new kid-friendly 3D printer is making play educational

TL;DR: The Toybox Alpha Three 3D Printer Bundle is a kid-friendly 3D printer plus filament and more, and it's only $359 right ...

This founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year

Entrepreneur Nancy Hairston founded 3D medical-design company MedCAD after designing McDonald’s Happy Meal toys and Bratz ...
Interesting Engineering

World’s smallest 3D bioprinting robot delivers healing gels to damaged vocal cords

Scientists unveil a flexible 2.7 mm bioprinter that lets surgeons reconstruct vocal folds and prevent scarring after throat ...

Bioengineering a 3D printer for living tissue

Women recovering from mastectomies may soon have more lifelike options for breast reconstruction surgery, thanks to 3D-printing technology under development at the University of Maryland, College Park ...