This week in Additive Manufacturing (Feb 07, 2023)

This week in 3D - Conductive ink, contact lenses, layoffs and more...

Make sure you don't miss the updated?industry index?by?3D Alliances

1.?????Metal - Freeform, a metal printing manufacturing company founded by SpaceX veterans, has officially launched. The California-based company has raised $45 million to date and plans to deploy several autonomous 3D printing manufacturing plants backed by dedicated software around the world.

2.?????Maritime - Designer Joseph Purkis recently unveiled an 88-meter long superyacht designed to be 3D printed

3.?????Maritime - The US Navy installed for the first time on a battleship a Philips hybrid system for printing metal parts that combines the Meltio printing solution with Haas metal processing.

4.?????Medical - Turkey-based TraBTech has received a €1.3 million investment to develop advanced 3D-printed hip prosthesis implant applications.

5.?????Optics - Researchers used 3D printing to produce a tiny disposable optical microscope printed in about 50 minutes.

6.?????Optics - Researchers from Korea have developed a 3D printing technique to produce a smart contact lens for virtual reality.

7.?????Industry news - Desktop Metal, which sent home 12% of workers in 2022, plans to reduce its workforce by another 15% in 2023.

8.?????AI - NVIDIA introduces Magic3D, software that turns text into a 3D model with the option of a high-resolution model that can be 3D printed

9.?????Software - Mitsubishi Electric Automation announced the release of a digital platform software designed for simulating production lines and the workflow of advanced manufacturing processes, including 3D printing.

10.??Electronics - US materials manufacturer C3Nano, specializing in conductive inks, has announced the release of SuperGrid: a flexible conductive ink for 3D printing applications.