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Fresh off a $4.7M Kickstarter, FibreSeek is pre-selling 500 units of the FibreSeeker 3, a $3,199 desktop printer that co-extrudes continuous carbon fiber for a claimed 900 MPa tensile strength.
Read the story →At IFA Berlin, Creality quietly rolled out a second wave of hardware beyond its K3/SPARKX i8 headliners: a flagship and entry resin printer, a 420mm-cubed FDM machine, and a 260g handheld AI 3D scanner.
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.
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.
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.
Terra Drone's 3D-printed Terra B1 interceptor was the only system to pass Japan's ATLA demonstration test, and the agency is pushing it to mass production in roughly three months instead of the usual one to two years.
Newly surfaced Bambu Lab patents describe a rack-based system for swapping printheads mid-print, paired with nozzle-integrated lighting for camera monitoring and magnetic alignment hardware to keep swapped heads precisely positioned.
ATLIX, the company formerly known as TRUMPF Additive Manufacturing, has renamed its entire metal 3D printer lineup from TruPrint to xBUILD, with specs unchanged but a new corporate identity now shipping on every machine.
Shenzhen startup LightMake, founded by an ex-Anker/Huawei exec, has launched a Kickstarter for the L4, a beltless desktop FFF printer that drives four independent print heads on linear motors instead of belts.
British saddle maker Ergon Equine and igus UK 3D print six SLS ball-joint housings from tribo-polymer iglidur i230 to let the BioTree saddle tree flex across three axes instead of staying rigid like a traditional wood-and-metal tree.
A precision-machinery company with no prior 3D printing history showed off an eight-toolhead printer promising a 10x cut in multicolor purge waste at Formnext Asia Shenzhen.
Two Rose-Hulman grads built a patent-pending five-axis desktop FDM printer in their college apartment, showed a fifth-generation pilot unit at RAPID 2026, and are now signing up pilot users ahead of a San Francisco launch.
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