The big picture: For years, companies have touted 3D printing as the future of construction, and now one of the strongest signs of the technology moving into the mainstream has arrived.

The West Japan Railway Company, also known as JR West, replaced an entire station with 3D-printed prefabricated pieces in under three hours last week. The company also claims the construction ...

Left: 3D-printed laptop holder, used for track testing to record pressure data within the car. Right: 3D-printed parts on display in glass case at Stratasys. Not long ago, the standard part-making ...

Soldiers headed to Fort Bliss, Texas for annual training rotations will live in 3D-printed barracks built by a five-ton printer using a form of concrete. The Fort Bliss building is now the largest ...

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The company will even create custom parts for you after your car has been delivered, as one Chiron owner discovered when she asked for a cup holder ... and developed a 3D-printed cupholder ...

You can get in touch with Giulia by emailing: [email protected]. Ireland has built Europe's first 3D-printed concrete social housing as the continent catches up with a technology that the U ...

But those sleuthing tactics are fast becoming old-school science as a new era of weapons increasingly hits the nation's streets: untraceable 3D-printed guns and silencers like the ones found this ...

Here’s a possible solution: 3D-print it on site. That’s the basis of a current research project led by Civil & Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor Floriana Petrone and Associate Research ...

Braddick’s spaceship took more than 24 hours to form, or just a little longer than the time it takes today to spit out a highly complex sneaker from a fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer.

The Walmart 3D-printed extension measures around 8,000 sq ft (743 sq m) and reaches a height of 20 ft (6 m), making it one of the world's largest 3D-printed structures Alquist 3D 3 / 5 ...