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Step one: Send robot/printer to Mars
Step two: Use local materials to print building components
Step three: Use robot to assemble
Step four: Go to Mars and move in to your preassembled structure
Very cool!
If something breaks, print yourself a new one.
This will be a huge step forward in our ability to leave our planet for long periods of time. We aren't there yet, but every step closer is great to see.
3D-printed vertebra used in world-first spine surgery
I just saw this in the news and its very cool so I decided to post it. Why I keep hearing that by 2020 all organs will be 3D printed.
During a recent five-hour operation, surgeons at a Peking University hospital in Beijing were able to remove a tumour located on the second vertebra of a 12-year-old cancer patient named Minghao and replace it with a 3D-printed part.
"This is the first use of a 3D-printed vertebra as an implant for orthopaedic spine surgery in the world," said one of the surgeons, Director of Orthopaedics at Peking University, Liu Zhongjun, in a statement to the press.
We have 3 of them for rapid prototyping parts and testing out new product designs. Something that was a lot more costly and time prohibitive in the past.
New 3D bioprinter to reproduce human organs, change the face of healthcare
Big advancements in 3D printing.
Researchers are only steps away from bioprinting tissues and organs to solve a myriad of injuries and illnesses. TechRepublic has the inside story of the new product accelerating the process.
If you want to understand how close the medical community is to a quantum leap forward in 3D bioprinting, then you need to look at the work that one intern is doing this summer at the University of Louisville.
A team of doctors, researchers, technicians, and students at the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute (CII) on Muhammad Ali Boulevard in Louisville, Kentucky swarm around the BioAssembly Tool (BAT), a square black machine that's solid on the bottom and encased in glass on three sides on the top. There's a large stuffed animal bat sitting on the machine and a computer monitor on the side, showing magnified images of the biomaterial that the machine is printing.
Soon, Your Doctor Could Print a Human Organ on Demand
More good news on the 3D printing front:
On the second floor of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, not far from the elevator bank, is a collection of faded prints depicting great moments in medical history. In one, an ancient Babylonian pharmacist holds aloft a vial of medicine. Another shows the Greek physician Hippocrates tending to a patient in the fifth century B.C. The prints were doled out to doctors half a century ago by the pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis, which touted them as a historical highlight reel. But it’s not hard to read their presence at Wake Forest, home to perhaps the largest concentration of medical futurists on the planet, as the ultimate in-joke: Can you believe how far we’ve come?
Gravity-defying 3D printer to print bridge over water in Amsterdam
3D printers keep advancing. Just think how this will impact employment?
The 3D-printed home has been accomplished -- and apparently the next step is something a little more structurally challenging. A 3D-printing company based in Amsterdam has developed a revolutionary, multi-axis robotic 3D printer that can "draw" structures in the air -- and it's planning to build a bridge over a canal in the heart of the city.
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3D-printed vertebra used in world-first spine surgery
Finally! A 3D printer I might buy
