On the first day of the recent MMX 2026, the annual Members Meeting and Exchange held by America Makes in Youngstown, Ohio, someone asked me if I had any early thoughts as to the initial theme of the event. Having already listened to several presentations, I half-jokingly answered, “‘I hate Bambu,’ ‘I love Bambu,’ and […]
Hyundai Motor Group (which, in addition to owning Hyundai, holds a large ownership stake in Kia) maintains an R&D center in Hwaseong, South Korea called Namyang, the company’s largest such facility globally. It’s over 3 million square feet and employs over 10,000 workers, and Hyundai and Kia recently publicized that, this year, the location also
Velo3D (Nasdaq: VELO) reported a sharp increase in second-quarter revenue and raised its full-year outlook as the metal additive manufacturing (AM) company expands production to meet demand from aerospace and defense customers. Revenue reached $20.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, up 52.3% from $13.6 million a year earlier. The company also returned to
3D Systems has received an extra $9 million under the Air Force’s Large-Format Metal 3D Printer Advanced Technology Demonstrator program. In 2023, the firm already got $10.8 million from the GEN-II DMP-1000 program, aimed at large parts for hypersonics. Subsequently in 2025, the firm received an extra $7.65 million to continue the work. Now, it
Representatives of the US Army’s DEVCOM Armaments Center trained Marines to use 3D printing for repair electronics components repair at the recent Valiant Shield event in the Indo-Pacific. Not long after, at the RIMPAC exercise (also in the Indo-Pacific), additive manufacturing (AM) software provider 3YOURMIND partnered with Phillips Corp. to demonstrate AM-enabled distributed supply chain capabilities
OK, so in this four-part series, we used a cutting-edge stealth mode AI business intelligence tool that outperforms all commercially available LLMs. We then gussied up the data using Google’s Notebook LM. What we found were some pretty groovy slides that sometimes hid the truth. We also found some blatant errors. Using 3D printing as
Korea’s Pusan National University has developed 3D printed elastomeric actuators. In a paper published in Nature, the team used elastomeric liquid crystal filaments. The filaments were printed while changing their molecular orientations, letting them either expand or contract and enabling switchable actuators. The team consisted of Jin-Hyeong Lee, Kyeong Pyo Kim, Lijie Ding, Michael Li,
In addition to its more traditional uses, the centrality of copper to an unusually large number of high-growth industries has led more than a few observers to argue that it could be the key industrial metal of the 21st century. At the same time, supply-side uncertainty has recently driven copper prices to all-time highs. While
This is Part II of our LightForce interview series. While Part I focused on the technology behind the company’s customized 3D printed brackets, Part II looks at what that technology meant for the first patient to receive them. When Katie Doran was a teenager, she spent years in braces, wore headgear, and went through a
In this ongoing series of Killer 3D Printing Applications, we’ve looked at a lot of things, including tools, tool voids, factory automation, aircraft seating, car seats, and more. We’ve been looking for nascent 3D printing applications that could turn into multi billion dollar businesses. Typically, they will use the ability of additive to iterate, be
