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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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Medical 3D Printing in 2026: FDA-Cleared Implants, Surgical Guides, and Prosthetics
Medical additive manufacturing has moved from research novelty to clinical routine. Here is what is FDA-cleared for patient use in 2026, from titanium spinal implants to custom surgical guides.
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3D Printing Is Flying: How Aerospace Is Betting on Additive Manufacturing
From jet engine fuel nozzles to rocket combustion chambers, additive manufacturing has moved from aerospace prototype tool to flight-certified production method — and the implications reach all the way down to the maker community.
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NASA's Lunar Habitat Vision: 3D Printing Homes on the Moon with Regolith
NASA's partnership with ICON to develop in-situ resource utilization printing for Artemis-era lunar habitats is moving from concept to tested hardware. Here's where the program stands.
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The Quiet Giant: Dental Is Where Consumer-Style 3D Printing Already Won
While makers debate bed slingers, dentistry has quietly become one of 3D printing's biggest success stories. The dental 3D-printing market is set to grow from $5 billion in 2026 toward nearly $19 billion by 2033, led by clear aligners and crowns.
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ICON Opens Up: The Titan Program Puts 3D-Printed Home Construction in Builders' Hands
ICON has commercially launched Titan, a robotic 3D-printing construction system it will sell to outside builders for the first time. With wall systems at about $20 per square foot and 245+ structures already built, large-scale printed housing is moving from demo to product.
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Bioprinting's Big Year: Vascular Networks, a $28.5M Printed Liver, and AI-Designed Tissue
3D bioprinting has moved past skin and cartilage to complex, vascularized tissue in 2026. A Carnegie Mellon team won up to $28.5M to bioprint a functional liver, and new techniques can build the tiny blood vessels real organs require.
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California's AB 2047 Would Force Gun-Blocking Software Into Every 3D Printer Sold in the State
California's Assembly passed AB 2047, which would require consumer 3D printers to embed firearm-blueprint detection software, ban non-compliant models from sale, and fine retailers $25,000 per violation. Makers and the EFF warn it could censor printing far beyond guns.
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Two New Industrial 3D Printers Land: Mastrex's Metal MX300 and Sinterit's BIANCO2 SLS
The high end of additive manufacturing keeps moving: Mastrex launched a $185,000 dual-laser metal printer and Sinterit a benchtop SLS system. What the new machines signal about where industrial printing is headed.
