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3-Year-Old with Extremely Large Head Receives Groundbreaking Skull Replacement Surgery


Surgeons and medical experts in China really seem to be on a roll lately when it comes to 3D printing medical implants. Over the past few weeks we’ve reported on several very impressive surgeries that have taken place thanks to 3D printed titanium implants. However, none of these come close to comparing to the latest surgery performed at the Second People’s Hospital of Hunan Province in China, on a 3-year-old little girl named Han Han. [...] Surgeons and medical personnel used 3D data that they acquired as well as CT scanners to create models for 3D printing three titanium mesh skull implants which would together replace Han Han’s entire top portion of her skull.

 

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10 Ways 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Biotechnology


3D printing technology is showing infinite manufacturing capabilities using a variety of materials, and now it’s innovating biotechnology. Researchers are discovering new ways to utilize this technique, creating cost-saving opportunities and novel gadgets for the lab.
So what is 3D printing? It’s a manufacturing process that is also known as “additive manufacturing,” and it involves the production of three dimensional objects using a digital file. It does this by working in continuous layers, building on a product until it’s finished. The process requires a computer aided design file which acts as the blueprint for the 3D printer. So with a little creativity, and either some technical skills or an open-source design, people are using this method to produce amazing things.

In laboratory research and development, there are 10 really fascinating products or concepts that have evolved from the emergence of 3D printing.

 

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Drug using 3D printing technology gets FDA nod
INFORUM - ‎2 hours ago‎

3D printing could help companies make products "to the specifications of an individual patient rather than (take a) one-size-fits-all kind of approach," Wedbush Securities analyst Tao Levy said.

 

[JimBowie1958]

The transition to a fully automated manufacturing process that will make things very low cost, this transition will be harsh on the general public. Unemployment will be huge for a time. It will be critical to not leave otherwise hard-working people in the dust, but beyond that, I amnot sure how this ting will be managed with less pain.

But once we get past that transitional difficult phase, we are gold, methinks.

Between this and fusion. I think once we get past this phase of it we may be able to start thinking in a more even human to human way. The technology is starting to get to the point to allow such.

Fusion=energy
3-d Printers=manfacturing

All we need is some way to make food for all.

Of course people will still have to work to build roads and many other things, but life will be easier.

Honestly, I think a bigger breakthrough will come when we have robots doing everything for us. Building our roads, houses, buildings and planting our farms. This will be as close to Marxism we ever as come. One will want to focus on self betterment as otherwise life will be quite simple.

People like truthmatters and Christ will get to be president at this time.

Lol, well don't be too shocked when libtards advocate robots rights.

 

[Old Rocks]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.................. If we create AI that is self aware, what do you suggest we do? Forcing a self aware and intelligent organism, organic or robotic, to do work without some kind of compensation is slavery. We will, sooner or later, face this moral choice.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.................. If we create AI that is self aware, what do you suggest we do? Forcing a self aware and intelligent organism, organic or robotic, to do work without some kind of compensation is slavery. We will, sooner or later, face this moral choice.

1. not all robots will be self aware, in fact I doubt that many of them will be at all as the overhead wont be AI required. Simple robots that can do repetitive labor wont be strong AI or anything approaching that, and will not be remotely resembling humanity at all.

2. Even Strong AI is not and will not be human and therefore will not have 'human rights'.

3. No one yet has been able to answer a simple question that has haunted the First World since 1972; why don't libtards just go kill themselves and spare the rest of us the pain of their being? Seems like the epitome of their thinking, so why not just go ahead and get it over with?

No answers as yet at all.

 

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Raytheon 3D prints 80 percent of guided missile parts and progress on printing Titanium satellite and rocket parts

Raytheon created nearly every component of a guided weapon using additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing. The components include rocket engines, fins, parts for the guidance and control systems, and more. “You could potentially have these in the field,” said Jeremy Danforth, a Raytheon engineer who has printed working...
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MIT team explores glass via additive manufacturing (w/ Video)
Fine glass manufactured additively has been the focus of a team of MIT researchers, who demonstrate their new method of making glass via advanced 3D printing.

 

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This 3D Printer Can Print 10 Materials at Once

Also uses machine vision to auto-correct a few problems, and has a high resolution. 3d printing is getting MUCH more interesting

As 3D printing advances from its plastic roots, we’re seeing more and more materials passing through its nozzles. Metal, glass, random gunk—each new filament opens the door to new manufacturing applications.
Now researchers have made a printer they claim can use up to ten different materials at once. The “MultiFab,” made by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), could offer a relatively low-cost option for the multimaterial 3D printing market. Multimaterial printers offer the ability to print objects that aren’t 100 percent one material (i.e. most functional devices of more than one part) in one go.
In a paper for the journal ACM Transactions on Graphics, the researchers explain that for now the 15 materials in their library are all “UV-curable photopolymers” with different properties, such as one that’s notably rigid, and one that’s elastic. They suggest that other materials could be included in the future.

 

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New computational technique advances color 3D printing process

Working with researchers at Zhejiang University in China, Changxi Zheng, assistant professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a technique that enables hydrographic printing, a widely used industrial method for transferring color inks on a thin film to the surface of manufactured 3D objects, to color these surfaces with the most precise alignment ever attained.
Using a new computational method they developed to simulate the printing process, Zheng and his team have designed a model that predicts color film distortion during hydrographic immersion, and uses it to generate a colored film that guarantees exact alignment of the surface textures to the object.
The research will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2015, August 9 to 13, in Los Angeles.

 

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3D printing of transparent glass

It’s already possible to use tiny granules of glass in a powder bed with conventional 3-D printing techniques like jetting and sintering, but the products turn out opaque. Now researchers at MIT have demonstrated the first-ever machine that can print molten glass through a nozzle and make transparent glass objects layer by layer according...
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First 3D printed hotel suite built in the Phillipines

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"3D printing out of concrete was first shown last year, as China's WinSun started squirting out concrete walls and beams and proposed an office structure in Dubai. Now Lewis Yakich, an engineer who built houses in the States and now owns a hotel in the Philippines, has 3D printed a 1500 square foot suite for his hotel, with two bedrooms, a living room and a spa with a big 3D printed Jacuzzi tub."
"Coming up next: 2,000 affordable houses that Yakich claims will cost 60% less to build."

http://3dprint.com/9...el-lewis-grand/

Lewis Yakich’s Hotel in the Philippines

 

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40 foot tall 3d Printer for printing houses
An Italian company (Wasp project) has gone even bigger with a record-breaking 12 meter (40 ft) tall printer called the Big Delta.

By 2030, international estimates foresee a rapid growth of adequate housing requirements for over 4 billion people living with yearly income below $3,000. The United Nations calculated that over the next 15 years there will be an average daily requirement of 100.000 new housing units to meet this demand.

 

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Breakthrough achieved in Ceramics 3D Printing Technology
HRL Laboratories : Breakthrough achieved in Ceramics 3D Printing Technology

© 2015 HRL Laboratories. Photo by Dan Little Photography.

MALIBU, Calif. January 1, 2016 — Researchers at HRL Laboratories, LLC, have achieved a new milestone in 3D printing technology by developing a process that overcomes the limits of traditional ceramic parts and enables the development of high temperature, high strength ceramic components. According to HRL Sensors and Materials Laboratory Senior Scientist Dr. Tobias Schaedler, "Our team surmounted the challenges inherent in ceramics to develop an innovative material that has myriad applications in a variety of industries."

Schaedler credited HRL’s Senior Chemical Engineer Zak Eckel and Senior Chemist Dr. Chaoyin Zhou with inventing a resin formulation that can be 3D printed into parts of virtually any shape and size. The printed resin can then be fired, converting it into a high strength, fully dense ceramic. "The resulting material can withstand ultrahigh temperatures in excess of 1700°C and exhibits strength ten times higher than similar materials," said Schaedler.

This innovative process enables additive manufacturing of complex shaped ceramic parts. "Ceramics are much more difficult to process than polymers or metals because they cannot be cast or machined easily," said Schaedler. Traditionally, ceramic parts are consolidated from powders by sintering, which introduces porosity and limits both achievable shapes and final strength. "With our new 3D printing process, we can take full advantage of the many desirable properties of this silicon oxycarbide ceramic, including high hardness, strength and temperature capability, as well as resistance to abrasion and corrosion," said Schaedler.

 

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It's a 3D printer, but not as we know it

January 19, 2016

The research team have developed the first demonstration of 3D printing of composite materials. Ultrasonic waves produce a pattern of microscopic glass fibres which give the component increased strength. A laser cures the epoxy resin and …more

3D printing techniques have quickly become some of the most widely used tools to rapidly design and build new components. A team of engineers at the University of Bristol has developed a new type of 3D printing that can print composite materials, which are used in many high performance products such as tennis rackets, golf clubs and aeroplanes. This technology will soon enable a much greater range of things to be 3D printed at home and at low-cost.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-01-3d-printer.html#jCp