Future Engineers have teamed up with NASA to create a competition encouraging American school-kids to get involved in 3D design. The competition is targeted for K-12 students in the U.S and the task is to design a Medical 3D print for the Journey to Mars....
In a conversation with Forbes Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Vice President and Director of Rolls-Royce, explains how he managed to save the company from its downward spiral in 2009. The success is due in part to the departure from determined taste-maker to bespoke manufacturer, and with that,...
Thanks to the Essence of Autonomy Challenge from electronics distribution giants Mouser and Local Motors, we are now looking at a future where autonomous cars have a drone sidekick. If there’s no need to physically drive the car, what else are you going to do? As the...
Today, when we build our ideas online, share them and sell them online, we still reach a certain point at when we would like to better vizuialise our idea and concept and showcase it to our clients. It is particularly important for the field of...
The world’s largest manufacturer of trucks has turned to 3D printing to produce spare parts for its vast range of trucks. Daimler has joined the likes of Audi and BMW, who have both adopted additive manufacturing for producing spare parts on a ‘just in time’ basis. The...
A car enthusiast turned to her local robotics club, after finding out that a spare part for her car would cost much more than simply making a new one. Yellowknife resident Jan Fullerton is the proud owner of a 1992 Toyota Celica GT-Four, a rare version...
Since the early days of 3D printing, marks have been set for the architectural industry to implement additive manufacturing technology into the construction of full-scale buildings. Research into Contour Crafting was conducted as far back as 2008. Caterpillar Inc. provided funding to the USC Viterbi...