3D printing

On Thursday, Nike announced several new products, including Project Amplify, a powered footwear system for running and walking. The system is “engineered to augment natural lower leg and ankle movement,” according to the press release. It is “in effect, a second set of calf muscles.” The product is still in early testing.  “Our job is…

Researchers at the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) say they have developed a magnetic 3D printing system for motor fabrication that eliminates the need for traditional molds. While the team claims successful performance validation, the results to date are only shared in a press release, which notes the development of an “all-encompassing technological…

In many respects, 2024 was a year of building upon the foundations laid by previous technological and scientific advances. While AI continued to evolve at a rapid clip, progress was in many ways more incremental than last year when GPT-4 redefined expectations for genAI. But AI continues to make definable improvements across a range of…

Researchers at MIT used 3D printing to create self-heating microfluidic devices, highlighting the potential for this technique in future applications. Microfluidics have uses in detecting diseases within tiny samples of blood or fluids, like in COVID-19 test kits. The team at MIT believes the technique could someday help rapidly create cheap but accurate disease detection…