Britt Young, writer and lecturer at UC Berkeley, explains why 3D printing has not brought down costs of prosthetic limbs.

Over the last few years, 3D-printed housing has been gaining attention worldwide as a faster, cheaper & sustainable way to ...

3D printing (aka additive manufacturing) has gone far beyond making prototypes quickly. It is now entrenched in manufacturing, and examples abound: Well-designed 3D-printed parts follow many of the ...

Walmart's second 3D-printed store expansion cost 15% less and produced 55% less waste than the company's first such building constructed last year in Athens, Tenn., the retailer and its project ...

Over the past year, in a lab in Austin, a team of engineers and materials scientists tweaked and tested the design of the “Vulcan II,” a massive, 33-by-11-foot machine that can 3D print the frame of a ...

Metal 3D printing has long promised aerospace-grade parts at desktop scale, but titanium has stubbornly resisted that vision.

3D printing production is just scratching the surface of the multi-trillion dollar global manufacturing industry. But its dominance is already pre-determined. This is because modern manufacturing, ...

Copper heatsink created on Markforged 3D printer. A Massachusetts company has come up with a way it says will reduce automotive production and supply costs while boosting the efficiency of motors for ...

A collaboration between housing non-profit New Story and construction technology firm Icon aims to use 3D printing technology to house the homeless. While it's early days yet, they hope to produce low ...

Researchers at McGill University used a mosquito proboscis as a biodegradable micro nozzle for high resolution 3D printing.

Mosquitoes live almost everywhere on Earth and are easy to rear. The team estimates that organic 3D printing nozzles made ...