agriculture
Improving Intelligent Crop Breeding with 3D Printed Sugar Beet Plant
A team of German researchers are working to bring farming into the future by developing AI-assisted crop pipeline improvement. By using laser scanning and consumer-grade FDM 3D printing, they were…
New Research Optimizes Weed Pulling with 3D Printing
Backyard gardeners view weeds as a nuisance to be pulled. They may be viewed even more negatively by the agricultural industry. Uncontrolled weeds on a piece of farmland can damage…
Researchers Review 3D Printing with Biomass-Derived Composites
Researchers from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have come…
Brazil’s First Congress on Bioengineering: From Bioprinting in Agriculture to New Startups
3D bioprinting is achieving wide acceptance around the world. Scientists, medical researchers, and bioengineers are not only employing high-end bioprinting systems to artificially fabricate biological products, but many are developing…
The State of 3D Printing in Agricultural Equipment
The agriculture business might conjure images of old, rusty tractors and humble family farms, but, in reality, it is a global industry worth $2.4 trillion dominated by some of the…
Wikifactory and Thought For Food Challenge: Solutions to Sustainably Feed the World
There are many ongoing efforts to use 3D printing for the purposes of increasing sustainability in the world, from marine applications and reducing plastic waste to clean water initiatives and…
3D Printing News Briefs: November 5, 2019
We’ve got some formnext announcements to start off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs – atum3D is introducing its newest DLP 3D printer, while Incus GmbH plans to launch its new…
5 Ways 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Water
Today almost one-fifth of the world’s population live in areas of water scarcity. By the year 2025, that number will rise to 1.8 billion people. From drinking water to water…
3D Printed Drone Saves Thousands of Crops per Year
The corn borer is a pest that attacks maize stalks, causing the loss of thousands of crops every year. Rather than drenching said crops with chemicals, a company called Soleon…
3D Printing Saves Time and Money in Urban Farming Product Design and Prototyping
3D printing technology has been used in the agriculture industry in various applications, to help create small-scale organic farms in developing countries, make cost-effective tools and plant crops, and set up…
3D Printed Pipes Mimic Tree Roots to Irrigate Plants
Water is something that every living thing needs, but it can be problematic making sure that water gets to every living thing – not just people and animals, but plants…
3D Printed Connectors Make This Startup’s Sustainable Indoor Garden Grow
The first time we planted a garden in our backyard, I couldn’t get enough of watching the vegetables grow. I would go out in the yard and gently move aside…
3D Systems Helps Wyma Engineering Print Scaled Model of Their Warehouse
As 3D printing moves towards higher-quality details and more compatibility with multiple colors, the architectural industry has found this emerging technology to be an adequate tool for creating realistic 3D…
3D Printing and Other High-Tech Solutions Could Create Lots of New Jobs in Agriculture
Agriculture and technology, at first glance, may not seem to go together. Technology is a broad term, but we usually associate it with the future, while agriculture brings up images…
