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Printers
Creality Debuts K3, SPARKX i8 and M1 Filament Maker at IFA 2026
At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Creality launched a flagship K3 with 4.8-second tool swaps, a four-color SPARKX i8, and an M1 Filament Maker that turns failed prints back into usable filament.
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Business
Hike Medical Raises $22.5M to Scale Its 3D-Printed Orthotics Platform
Hike Medical closed $22.5M in seed and Series A funding to grow its Peoria, Illinois print farm — 600+ printers running continuously, custom orthotics from a smartphone scan in about five business days.
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Industry
Isar Aerospace Reaches Orbit on Second Flight — With 3D-Printed EOS/AMCM Rocket Engines
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit on September 5, 2026, powered by Aquila engines whose thrust chambers are additively manufactured on a custom AMCM M 450 / EOS M 290 metal-printing setup.
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Software
Meshy AI Put Through Six Real 3D-Printing Tests — Fast, But Not Print-Ready
3D Printing Industry ran six practical modeling tests on Meshy AI's text/image-to-3D generator and found fast, printable-after-repair output undercut by bloated polygon counts and a 2.918mm calibration-cube error.
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Materials
Selle Italia's Unica Saddles Print a Different Lattice for Every Rider
Selle Italia's new Unica saddle line keeps the same molded shell for everyone but 3D prints a unique internal lattice for each rider from their own pressure-mapping scan.
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Materials
Amsterdam Physicists 3D Print Ice Overhangs With No Supports, Using a Vacuum Instead of a Freezer
University of Amsterdam physicists print free-standing ice structures at room temperature by firing a 16-micrometer water jet into a 2 mbar vacuum, where evaporative cooling supercools it to freeze on contact, holding unsupported overhangs down to 14 degrees and melting cleanly to water when the pump switches off.
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Printers
A Maker Built a Micron-Scale Resin Printer From a Fiber Tip, a DIY Micromanipulator, and Turmeric
Diffraction Limited paired its open-source 50 nm micromanipulator with a home-built fiber-coupled 405 nm laser to trace slicer toolpaths in resin, then fixed UV bleed-through with curcumin pulled from turmeric to print 150 µm Benchies and a bunny smaller than a hair.
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Business
Meltio Starts Assembling Its Wire-Laser Robot Cell in Connecticut to Dodge Import Delays and Court US Defense Buyers
Spanish wire-laser DED maker Meltio now builds its turnkey ABB-arm Robot Cell in New Britain, CT with integrator FORCE Automation, trading transatlantic freight and customs queues for a plug-in cell aimed squarely at US aerospace, energy and defense shops.
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Industry
'Necroprinting' Wins an Ig Nobel: McGill's Mosquito-Proboscis Nozzle Prints 20-Micron Lines Finer Than Any Commercial Tip
A McGill/Drexel team took the 2026 Ig Nobel Technology Prize for fitting a dead mosquito's proboscis onto a standard dispense tip and extruding 20-micron bioink lines, about 250% finer than commercial nozzles, biodegradable and reusable.
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Software
QuesTek Ships a Niobium Suite for Its ICMD Platform, Putting C-103 and Next-Gen Nb Superalloys Into Computational Alloy Design
QuesTek's new Niobium Suite drops an ARPA-E-built CALPHAD database for C-103 and next-gen niobium superalloys into its cloud ICMD platform, built with CBMM and aimed at the engineers qualifying refractory parts for jet engines, in-space thrusters and metal AM.
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Printers
3devo's Filament Maker X10 Targets Print Farms and Labs With ±30µm Filament at 36kg/Day
3devo's new Filament Maker X10 pushes in-house extrusion into industrial territory, promising ±30µm filament, 36kg/day throughput, and support for abrasive engineering and recycled materials.
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Software
PrusaSlicer 3.0's First Public Alpha Ships With a Complete Rewrite and Offline-First Mode
Prusa Research's alpha11 build tears up PrusaSlicer's decade-old codebase for multi-bed projects, a Lua plugin system, and a fully offline mode built for firewalled shops — but SLA slicing and third-party profiles aren't in yet.
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