The genesis of the 3D-printed bridge was unconventional to say the least. In 2004, Joris Laarman founded a design lab in Amsterdam and began experimenting with various materials and applications ...

Joris Laarman will design the bridge that Dutch startup MX3D will 3D-print over a canal in Amsterdam in 2017. Joris Laarman/MX3D ...

The bridge measures 12.2 m (40 ft) in length and has a width of 6.3 m (20 ft). Whereas 3D-printed concrete projects extrude a cement-like mixture out of a nozzle in layers, metal obviously handles ...

You could scale the box up and print it piece by piece, assembling the pieces on site. Or you could get rid of the box entirely. The Dutch design company, MX3D, is opting for the latter approach. They ...

A company in the Netherlands is building a bridge across a canal in Amsterdam using 3D-printing robots.It seems that such attention-grabbing headlines appear regularly to declare how 3D-printing ...

Since they appeared in commercial form in the 1990s, 3D printers have generally been employed in factories to make small things like prototype models, components of jet-engines and dental crowns.

Three-dimensional printing is transforming medical care, letting the health care field shift from mass-produced solutions to customized treatments tailored to each patient’s needs. For instance ...

Scientists from Texas A&M University and the U.S. Air Force say they’ve developed a way to 3D print the strongest kind of steel. Here's how it works.