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Company news, funding, mergers, and earnings across the additive-manufacturing industry.
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Construction 3D Printing Beyond ICON: COBOD, CyBe, Apis Cor, and What Has Actually Been Built
ICON gets the headlines, but construction-scale 3D printing includes COBOD, CyBe Construction, and Apis Cor. This guide covers the technology, what has been built, and what barriers remain.
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Humanitarian 3D Printing: Shelters, Prosthetics, and Real Field Deployments
Field Ready, e-NABLE, and other organizations have deployed 3D printing in disaster relief and conflict zones. This guide covers what has worked in the field, what has not, and why logistics often matters more than the technology.
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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.
