Robotics
How AtomForm’s 12-Nozzle System Cuts Multi-Color FDM Transition Waste by Up to 90%
Pull up the print stats on multi-color FDM jobs. The number that stings isn’t time; it’s material efficiency. On six-color models, single-nozzle systems consume significant filament during transition flushing, expelling…
Caracol Taps CNC Robotics to Build and Support Its UK Systems
No matter how quickly the economy seems to be changing on the surface, there is no escaping the fact that geography is the foundation of economics, and, in case anyone…
HADDY’s Large-Format Robotic 3D Printing to Power Red Cat’s Drone Boat Production
In May 2025, Joris Peels, as is his custom, wrote a prescient article about Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), i.e., drone boats. Listing a multifaceted range…
EOS to Spotlight AI, Robotics, and Industrial Tooling at Hannover Messe
The US-Israel war on Iran is already catalyzing the sorts of major shifts to global supply chains that will effectively amount to permanent economic changes. In this context, the nations…
Harvard SEAS Engineers Develop 3D Printing Method for Soft Robotic Components with Programmable Shapes
The world of soft robotics is still largely in its pure research phase, but the R&D landscape has started to produce examples of early-stage commercialization. Researchers have started to refine…
Lockheed Martin Ventures Make Strategic Investment in Perseus Materials’ Large-Format Composite 3D Printing Vision
The VC shift towards increased funding in geopolitical bottlenecks looks less and less like a fleeting fad and more like a tectonic shift in where global investment dollars are placing…
Machina Labs Secures $124 Million at a Pivotal Moment for Defense Manufacturing
Machina Labs has raised $124 million in funding. Investors include Woven Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, and Strategic Development Fund (SDF). Machina describes itself as “software-defined production infrastructure,”…
Ingredients for Transforming 10+ Industries into the Next Generation of Manufacturing
The future of manufacturing will not be shaped by a single breakthrough in technology. Instead, it will be defined by a powerful combination of four essential ingredients that, when applied…
Printerior Launches Circdal to Build a Sustainable Architectural Ecosystem with 3D Printing
Robotic arm systems gradually gained traction for years in the large-format additive manufacturing (AM) space, before experiencing a legitimate breakout year in 2025. Pellet extrusion has been the clear winner…
3D Printing News Briefs, January 28, 2026: Suppressors, 3D Electronics, & More
We’re kicking off 3D Printing News Briefs with some news from last week’s Shot Show in Las Vegas, and then moving on to new 3D printing systems. We’ll end with…
3D Printing Predictions 2026: The Material Extrusion Market in 2026
The material extrusion market has seen titanic shifts over the past few years. A new bevvy of low-cost 3D printers have turned to software and sensors to make reliable high-speed…
Will Growth in Robotics Spawn More 3D Printing?
The bankruptcy of Roomba contains within it a story of value engineering, relentless innovation by Chinese firms, and a novel segment that became ho-hum. At the same time, robot lawn…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 27, 2025: Additive Construction in the U.S., Canada, & India
In this holiday weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, the focus is entirely on additive construction! We’ll start with news out of North America, specifically Canada and the United States, and…
3D Printing News Briefs, December 11, 2025: Circular 3D Printing Farms, Depowdering, Composites, & More
In this week’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Dyndrite signed an Expression of Interest to partner with IAM3DHUB, while Batch.Works and E3D are partnering to scale circular 3D printing farms. Farsoon…
Alquist Launches Concrete Printer Brand & Expands Construction 3D Printing Partnership with Walmart
One of the highest-profile use cases ever in the additive construction (AC) space occurred a little over a year ago, when Walmart announced that it had partnered with Colorado’s Alquist…
UK’s Base Materials Launches Large-Format 3D Printing Service
Tooling has been one of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry’s biggest success stories for quite some time, but the market is still in its early phases. One factor giving this…
Robotics Leader Comau to Advance AM Capabilities in EU-Funded Project
One could argue that the growth of additive manufacturing (AM) adoption proceeds at the pace at which the barriers to entry involved in post-processing are lowered. In other words, the…
Boston’s Additive Edge: Harvard’s MEDscience Takes High Schoolers Into the Future of Medicine
Forget chalkboards and worksheets. At Harvard Medical School’s MEDscienceTECH Program, students learn medicine by building, coding, and experimenting – whether it’s navigating a LEGO robot through a 3D printed spine,…
Formnext 2025: New Metal PBF 3D Printer, Serial Production Applications, & More
It’s Day 2 of Formnext 2025, where over 800 exhibitors from around the world have converged in Frankfurt for Europe’s premier additive manufacturing (AM) trade show. From exciting new printers…
3D Printed Interlocking Earthen Bricks Create Microclimates to Support Tree Growth
In some places, especially arid landscapes, tree saplings and crops need a little protection from the elements in order to grow. An interesting new project called TreeSoil was designed to…
UK Digital Inventory Platform 3D People Prints Agri-Robotics Parts On-Demand
The robotics industry is in the midst of a long boom cycle, as industrial robot installations more than doubled over the last decade. Simultaneously, the AI frenzy has driven interest…
$40M Round Propels Caracol’s Large-Format 3D Printing Ambitions
Italian deep-tech manufacturer Caracol has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate its international expansion and scale up its large-format 3D printing business. The investment marks…
Caracol Acquires Weber’s 3D Printing Assets
Italian large-format 3D printing specialist Caracol has acquired the additive manufacturing assets of Germany’s Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH, a long-standing leader in extrusion technology. The deal includes Weber’s intellectual property…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 9, 2025: U.S. Production, Optical Force Sensors, & More
We’re kicking things off today in 3D Printing News Briefs with some business news, starting with UK-based WB Alloys, which will build its first U.S. wire alloy production facility in…
