3D printing

A year ago, someone found Cleo on the side of a road in Oklahoma after a driver hit her and took off. She was badly injured, needed surgery and ultimately lost one of her legs. But everything changed for her earlier this year when Jordan Rosenfeld, a biomedical engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, adopted the abandoned dog after spotting…

Jordan Rosenfeld said he expects to have Cleo’s prosthetic leg ready sometime early next year.

One of the world’s largest neighborhoods of 3D-printed homes is set to break ground in Texas next year.

The story of 3D printing company Markforged and its coronavirus pandemic pivot with CEO Greg Mark.

A group of Andover High School students are producing about 20 face shields per day using 3D printers and donating them to local health care workers.

The 3D printers normally used in Uxbridge High School’s engineering classes are now humming along outside the classroom to help protect Massachusetts health care workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This is what we want learning to be. It’s making the best of a really horrible situation, and I think it speaks to the willingness of...

The need for supplies is critical at hospitals across the country as the coronavirus outbreak intensifies. Now, one of the top hospitals in Massachusetts is using state-of-the-art technology to make their own N95 masks and face shields. It has been a 24/7 job for the team based out of Massachusetts General Hospital as they look for solutions to a supply…

There is a need for supplies at Massachusetts General Hospital where N-95 masks and face shields are running low amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak is bending Boston’s health care system, and the president of one of its top hospitals is asking for help, even from people with 3D printers. Supplies are on the “low side” at Massachusetts General Hospital, and conservation alone will not do the trick, said the hospital’s president, Dr. Peter Slavin. “We need a vast production increase...

The world’s largest 3D printer has created the world’s largest 3D-printed boat. And the University of Maine demonstrated Thursday that it’s seaworthy. The university unveiled the 25-foot, 5,000-pound boat that was printed at the university’s Advanced Structures & Composite Center.

Seven months after the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced plans to launch a start-of-the-art denture clinic in response to a Houston Chronicle investigation, inmates from across the system are starting to get some of the first sets of 3D-printed teeth ever made inside a U.S. prison.

Makerfleet is changing the 3D printing game by making it easy for people to send their designs and watch them get made live over the web before pickup.

Lawmakers from New England are leading the fight to ban the 3D printing of plastic firearms. Tuesday evening, a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed weapons. On Monday, attorneys general from eight states, including Connecticut and Massachusetts, filed suit against the Trump administration to block...