The modelling and simulation research team at the NRC's Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre is a leader in ...

If you’re used to thinking about 3D printing in Cartesian terms, prepare your brain for a bit of a twist with [Joshua Bird]’s 4-axis 3D printer that’s not quite like anything we&#… ...

Built by an Airbus-led team, the printer is about the size of a washing machine—small for metal 3D printers but big for space exploration—and uses high-powered lasers to liquefy metal alloys at ...

In a significant step towards self-sufficiency in space, Nasa astronauts Jeanette Epps and Sunita Williams successfully configured a metal 3D printer aboard the International Space Station (ISS ...

A team of University of Toronto researchers, led by Professor Yu Zou in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, is working to advance the field of metal additive manufacturing at the ...

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January 23, 2021 [Billy Wu] has been writing for a few years about electrochemical 3D printing systems that can handle metal. He’s recently produced a video that you can see below about the process.

In an experiment that sounds about as safe as bobbing for fries, ESA carried out the first-ever 3D metal printing in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Built with Airbus, the ...

On Earth, current metal 3D printers are installed in a minimum 10-square-meter [108-sq-ft] laboratory. To create the prototype for the ISS, we had to shrink the printer to the size of a washing ...

The start-up, whose name is pronounced “speed 3D,” develops 3D-printing technology for metal. “If we’d had a metal 3D printer, we could just print those pins and repair our mine rollers ...

The printer requires a 480-volt power supply and allows operators aboard the ship to print custom parts as necessary. The print head does not move; instead, a plate beneath the print head moves ...