Year: 2026

Last year, U.S. troops demonstrated how far additive manufacturing has come by successfully 3D printing components for drones inside a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter while it was in flight. Despite aggressive tactical maneuvers, constant vibrations, changing temperatures and turbulence, the printer continued to operate and produced functional parts. Central to that demonstration was FieldFab, a […]

Around the world, designers, engineers, researchers and artists are turning to 3D printing as a powerful tool for environmental restoration and regenerative manufacturing. Once viewed primarily as a prototyping technology, additive manufacturing now enables solutions that support biodiversity, rebuild fragile ecosystems and strengthen conservation efforts in deserts, forests, rivers and coral reefs. From prosthetic tree […]

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have succeeded in 3D-printing networks of blood capillaries using an unusual hybrid technique. Before describing their method, it is important to recall the medical stakes. In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people are waiting for transplants while donor organs remain scarce. 3D-printing organs from a patient’s […]

The medical industry in France continues to surprise with innovations that improve patient care, enhance comfort, and simplify clinicians’ daily work. One of the latest breakthroughs is Kicmed, a startup from the Nantes region that has developed a cryotherapy medical device that integrates additive manufacturing. The device operates in part thanks to a 3D-printed silicone […]

In Barcelona, a surgeon rehearses a cardiac procedure on a model printed from a patient’s imaging data. At a pediatric hospital in Nebraska, a custom cranial guide is produced in days instead of weeks. The faster knowledge flows between hospitals, laboratories and companies working in this field, the faster clinical care improves. That is precisely […]