Sometimes when an innovative technology is introduced, its potential impact isn’t initially recognized. Take 3-D printing, which has been around since the 1980s. It was originally dismissed as a niche ...

Gutenberg’s printing press revolutionized the way the written word was replicated, bringing two-dimensional printing into the world and so vastly increasing accessibility of information. From that ...

The concept of 3-D printing houses has become popular as a way to tackle housing affordability, but as the teardown in Iowa shows it's not so simple to do. There’s been a lot of hoopla over ...

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has emerged as a transformative technology within modern medicine, offering bespoke solutions across a spectrum of clinical applications. Its ability to rapidly convert ...

Building a robot is hard. Building one that can sense its environment and learn how to get around on its own is even harder. But UCLA engineers took on an even bigger challenge. Not only did they ...

Drones, paired with 3-D printing technology, could autonomously carry out building projects. Thomas Ehrhardt via Pixabay Future construction sites could look vastly different due to new, flying 3-D ...

Los Angeles-based Freeform was co-founded by Erik Palitsch, the principal architect of the SpaceX Merlin engine and other programs, and TJ Ronacher, the lead analyst, news site TechCrunch reports.

Now printers can make metal objects quickly and cheaply. While 3-D printing has been around for decades, it has remained largely in the domain of hobbyists and designers producing one-off prototypes.

In holographic direct sound printing, a transducer emits high-acoustic pressure sound waves, inducing a sonochemical reaction called cavitation that creates solid material inside the build chamber. A ...

Before Jason Ballard became an entrepreneur, he considered becoming a priest. His speech is still peppered with the idiom of faith—wicked, angels, sacred—and, when he latches on to a subject he cares ...

An innovation interface tailors 3D-printed reefs to their marine environment and may curb reef devastation plaguing global coral ecosystems. The world's coral reefs are becoming extinct due to many ...