The Liber is designed for use in Snapmaker’s popular U1 desktop 3D printer, and it is priced at US$35 per hot end. Note, the U1 has FOUR hot ends; if you’re interested in upgrading all of them. How ...

Bambu Lab has patented an unusual extrusion arrangement that seems particularly good for printing soft materials like TPU in FFF systems.

Flashforge also developed new software, ColorPrint, to handle job setup for the CJ270. The software also includes an AI feature that can accept a 2D colour image and create a 3D colour representation ...

A UV cured skin may let lunar construction printers deposit unsupported structures before their flowable material collapses.

Charles R. Goulding and Andressa Bonafe explore how RIMPAC 2026 is transforming 3D printing from an onboard repair tool into a fleet-wide logistics network powered by digital manufacturing and ...

Stratasys has scored a significant patent victory against Bambu Lab in the US. A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that Bambu Lab infringed four Stratasys patents and awarded ...

I ran into a fascinating open-source project that attempts to automate some of the work to perform 3D print jobs.

Another big mover this week was 3D Systems, which gained nine percent in value. The event happened on Thursday, when an ...

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi take readers inside IMTS 2026 to explore how companies ranging from FANUC and Boston Dynamics to Standard Bots, KUKA and Yaskawa are helping transform robots ...

Elegoo has launched something that isn’t a 3D printer.

A printer head that dispenses three different fluids through the same tiny nozzle could bring atomic layer processing closer to a genuinely three-dimensional workflow.

A new paper, Thermo-Reactively Coupled (TRC) HDPE for Melt-Processable Warp-Resistant FDM 3D Printing, looks at a more fundamental approach: change the polymer during melt processing so it becomes ...