Forbes contributor TJ McCue writes about how MIT researchers have developed a 3-D printer that can manufacture glass. McCue explains that the printer uses, “many of the same controllers and parts that existing Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) printers use.”
Huffington Post reporter Nitya Rajan writes about a new 3-D printer designed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that can print up to 10 different materials at once. Rajan writes that, “this machine has just bought us one step closer to printing just about anything we fancy, on demand.”
MIT researchers have designed a multi-material 3-D printer that is relatively inexpensive and user-friendly, reports Michael Rundle for Wired. "The platform opens up new possibilities for manufacturing, giving researchers and hobbyists alike the power to create objects that have previously been difficult or even impossible to print," says research engineer Javier Ramos.
Dominic Basulto writes for The Washington Post about the implications of a new method for 3-D printing glass created by MIT’s Mediated Matter Group. Basulto writes that the technology could eventually give us “the ability to create objects and applications that do not exist today.”
Brian Barrett writes for Wired about the new, low-cost 3-D printer developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that can print 10 different materials at once. Research engineer Javier Ramos explains that the team wanted to make the printer, “inexpensive, and a software platform that we would keep open and hackable.”
Motherboard reporter Victoria Turk writes that MIT researchers have developed a 3-D printer that can print up to 10 different materials at once. Turk describes how the printer can create “a lens on top of an LED bulb" and other objects.
Researchers from MIT CSAIL have created a 3-D printer that can print 10 different materials simultaneously, reports Kelsey Atherton for Popular Science. The new printer can also “incorporate other, finished parts directly into the design— all at a fraction of the cost of complex industrial 3D printers.”
Wired reporter James Temperton writes that researchers at MIT have developed a new method for 3-D printing glass. Temperton writes that the process is “better understood as additive manufacturing, with layers of molten glass being slowly drizzled into shape through a nozzle.”
According to The Economist, MIT researchers are using 3-D printing to modernize the coiling method of glass production. The researchers have “already used their device to print a range of objects, including optical prisms and decorative vessels.”
“MIT's Mediated Matter Group has figured out a way to put molten glass through a 3D printer, creating beautiful sculptures,” writes Mary Beth Griggs for Popular Science. The printer lays down individual layers of melted glass, bringing it up to a finished sculpture.
In an article for BetaBoston about 3-D printing, Scott Kirsner highlights the Fab Foundation and Fab Labs, which aim to provide people worldwide with access to digital fabrication tools. “Innovation is a very chaotic, messy process. It doesn’t work in sterile boxes,” says Prof. Neil Gershenfeld. “Globally, these Fab Labs bring bright, inventive people out of the woodwork.”
Pheobe Gavin reports for Slate on self-assembling origami robots developed by Professor Daniela Rus’ team that could one day be refined for use in surgery or other medical applications: “The origami robot can walk, swim, push objects, climb inclines, and carry objects twice its weight.”
Wired reporter Liat Clark writes that researchers at the MIT Media Lab have developed a 3-D printed biological wearable that “could theoretically generate drugs, fuel and food when exposed to sunlight.”
MIT researchers have designed a 3D-printed soft material with a modifiable surface texture inspired by the cuttlefish, writes Maria Temming for Scientific American. The team “discovered their modifiable surfaces are not only useful for camouflage but a spectrum of other applications.”
In this video, CNN examines a new printable origami robot developed by MIT researchers that can dissolve in a variety of liquids. CNN explains that the researchers hope that the robot could one day be used to perform medical tasks inside the human body.