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EAB Insight: 3D Printing, Maintenance, Efficiency, Training

Mold Making Technology

Murphy Forsyth, MMT EAB member and Zero Tolerance general manager and processing engineer shares her top article picks. Here, she kicks off this year’s EAB series by sharing her five favorite MoldMaking Technology articles over the past year, along with key takeaways. The use of 3D printing for cavities and cores is on the rise.

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Chuck Jaws Achieve 77% Weight Reduction Through 3D Printing

Modern Machine Shop

Now, APG’s sister company uses 3D printed jaws more optimized to this process. One of the first applications the company found for metal 3D printing has proven to be a valuable business opportunity, both for serving internal needs of its sister machining business and now, those of outside customers as well.

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Advanced Technology Adoption Increases Revenue

Additive Manufacturing

Various research points to three major reasons companies do not rush to adopt advanced technologies, such as 3D printing or Digital Twin methodologies. This recent article by Steven R. For example, NASA is a leader in not only developing technologies but applying nanomaterials, digitalization, and 3D printing components.

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UNSW Sydney introduces newly developed 3D bioprinting surgical tool

AU Manufacturing

Researchers from UNSW Sydney have engineered a miniature soft robotic arm capable of 3D printing biomaterial directly onto the organs of a person. The research team have trialled the device inside an artificial colon and tried 3D printing a variety of materials with different shapes on the surface of a pig’s kidney.

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Researchers build flexible, soft robotic actuators

Robotics Business Review

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting — just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator , the researchers used it to create a cylindrical, worm-like soft robot and an artificial bicep. Pranav Kaarthik, a Ph.D.

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NASA Has Jumped on the Generative AI Design and Manufacturing Bandwagon

21st Century Tech

It intends to explore and teach the transitioning of today’s manufacturing systems into on-demand, custom-designed processes that use 3D printing or additive manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI). space agency, that recently started revealing hardware for spacecraft designed using 3D printing and AI?

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Northeastern University Mars Rover Team wins Winter Canadian International Challenge

Robotics Business Review

The university team of about 50 students had been hard at work developing and iterating on its latest robotic rover: the Watney, Mark V. the rover features a 5052 aluminum alloy chassis, six 3D-printed nylon wheels, a robotic arm with end-of-arm tooling (EOAT), a life-detection module for sample collection, and 14 onboard cameras.

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