TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The metal 3D printing company intends to merge with ONE, a special purpose acquisition company created by Kevin Hartz, who will join its board. Markforged raises $82 million for its industrial 3D printers. Big morning for Massachusetts tech companies planning to go public via SPAC. billion, would bring in around $400 million in cash.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics. Delivering what is believed to be the largest 3D-printed structure in North America — a barracks for Texas Military Department. ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

3D printing has garnered a lot of hype, much of it for good reason: The technology has unlocked new kinds of object shapes and geometries, and it uses materials that tend to be much lighter weight than their traditionally manufactured counterparts. The company manufactures industrial 3D printers for thermoplastics. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble. Stefanescu said the goal is to provide a platform to open up the process and make it easier for companies to exchange information in 3D formats.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company has developed a new neural rendering technology that makes it possible to take a small number of photos to generate, shade and render a photo-realistic 3D model of a product. In other words: you can see a 3D image of the product you’re considering in a VR headset. Image Credits: Luma. Image Credits: Luma.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. million financing into the ultra-high-resolution 3D printing company that can print finely enough to aid in semiconductor and display manufacturing. . The firm led the $9.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. Now that the company has laid the foundation on how to automate 3D imagery on scale, de Vigan intends to deploy the new funding into scaling nfinite’s sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

” Image Credits: Rooms.xyz The idea for Rooms was inspired by a combination of factors, explains co-founder Jason Toff — namely, that 3D model creation today was far too difficult. The startup seeded its community with 1,000 Voxel 3D objects it commissioned from creators, which can be added and customized in your own space.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Now, a South Korean augmented reality (AR) startup called RECON Labs , which enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models within a few hours by taking a short video of products via its platform PlicAR, has raised $4.4 Retailers can save time and costs by using PlicAR without building their own 3D modeling platform, he added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Specifically, the company relies on robotic and 3D printing solutions. That tech is coupled with a gantry-based 3D printing technology designed to construct interior and exterior walls for the structure. The former involves a set of 26 different robotic arm attachments to assist with the construction.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Hexa , a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 After all, the company was once one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers — not exactly entrenched in the 3D modeling space. They also can manage and assess the impact of their 3D content through our platform.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S. and Mexico. for developer 3Strands in Austin, Texas.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. On the one hand, there’s 3D printing. We hired seven engineers, a combination of food scientists and engineers, including 3D printing engineers. Earlier last month, we featured Mooji Meats , noting the food tech startup’s plans to raise a $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Strava , the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap , a European company that’s building a high-resolution 3D global map platform for the great outdoors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Now as Leo AR, the company is focused on 3D augmented reality objects without losing focus on giving artists an easy-to-use outlet for their virtual wares. In 2017, MojiLala released a new app called Surreal , which allowed artists to sell virtual objects to end users and lay them over their camera to record fun content.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

OPT’s 3D printing system was seven years in the making, but its timing was certainly fortuitous, with the creation of a swab it says is “up to 20 times more effective in bacterial sample elution.” RAMP 3D prints edge-to-edge rolls, allowing the system to produce high-resolution prints at a much faster scale than traditional methods.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The industrial 3D printing space has seen a number of interesting evolutions recently, as companies are starting a consolidation phase. Among other things, Protolabs acquired 3D Hubs , Desktop Metal snagged EnvisionTEC and Lumentum spent $5.7 With today’s Markforged share price of around $1.9, billion acquiring Coherent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. Firehawk CEO Will Edwards (left) and chief scientist Ron Jones hold 3D-printed fuel tubes Image Credits: Firehawk Aerospace.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Iconem, compañía especializada en la conservación digital con sede en París, ha empleado la fotogrametría avanzada e IA para crear réplicas en 3D de los monumentos históricos y sitios arqueológicos más famosos del mundo. A continuación, Iconem creó un modelo 3D ultrapreciso, es decir, un gemelo digital de la Basílica.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Instead, it’s developing a unit that 3D prints a dense network of microchannels that pass cells through the nutrients and oxygen they need. An example of a 3D-printed fluid channel piece. What Stämm has done is essentially cut the tank, stirring and tubes out of the equation entirely. The movement itself acts as the stirring motion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Avataar helps direct-to-consumer brands and e-commerce marketplaces with shaping their consumer journeys with 3D rendition of products. As long as the product images are in at least 1080p resolution, Aluru said, Avataar can stitch a virtual and 3D version from it. The six-year-old startup has raised about $55.5

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Ooda Loop

MARCH 18, 2025

released new AI services that turn text or images into 3D visuals and graphics, the latest in a series of products to emerge from big tech firms since DeepSeek galvanized Chinese and US artificial intelligence development. Tencents five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 Tencent Holdings Ltd.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called LivingCities , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.ai

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 18, 2021

In 1966, Ivan Sutherland invented the first head-mounted display which contained two separate wireframe images and gave a 3D effect. In 1977, a major advancement in 3D computer graphics was created to draw a 3D representation of an object on the screen, which acted as a foundation for most future developments.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

3D-printed rocket startup Relativity Space has raised a $650 million Series E, bringing its total raised to over $1.2 Relativity CEO Tim Ellis in an interview with TechCrunch likened 3D printing to a paradigm shift in manufacturing. “I Relativity’s post-money valuation now stands at $4.2 Image Credits: Relativity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But Howe tells us it moved into mobile sizing shortly after the 2017 launch of the iPhone X — which added a 3D depth camera to Apple’s smartphone. Neatsy wants to reduce sneaker returns with 3D foot scans. The Canadian startup hasn’t always been focused on feet. “This summer I had an aha !

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A complete prompt might read: “3D Voxel Art; wide angle shot of a bright and colorful world.” For instance, in the prompt “A realistic 3D render of a red apple,” the clarity of tokenization can significantly affect the quality of the output image. Similarly, emphasizing multiple aspects, as in “A (photorealistic:1.4) (3D render:1.2)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

As Mike Murphy at Protocol noted, it’s a bit like Thingiverse, Yeggi or other sites used by 3D-printing hobbyists. Meet Cocoa Press, the Philly startup making a 3D printer for chocolate. Hence the GitHub and Google combination. .

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

3D and Virtual Reality. With more commercial access to 3D rendering and virtual reality tools, web designers can implement newer technology in their projects. Both 3D and virtual reality are known to provide interaction with the audiences, and sometimes, it is something that a business is looking for.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The basis of their technique is turning widely available 2D imagery into accurate 3D representations with machine learning, a bit of smart guesswork, and a lot of computing power. Using all this it creates a plausible 3D reconstruction of the building. But that also necessitates the aforementioned 2D-to-3D method. Blackshark.ai

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Ooda Loop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Researchers can also use an AI agent to generate 3D physics simulations from text prompts. On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Late last year, Skydio brought on additional senior talent to help it address enterprise and government customers, including a software development lead who had experience at Tesla and 3D printing company Carbon. Skydio also hired two Samsara executives at the same time to work on product and engineering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With the snappy slogan “one size fits one”, LightForce Orthodontics creates custom, 3D-printed brackets and placement trays for braces. He has a deep background in 3D printing and hard tech. Meanwhile, Alfred is taking in the knowledge from other areas, such as from simulation and from 3D printing.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

The Kimoa E-Bike is made-to-measure for each rider, due to its custom 3D-printed carbon fiber frame, which is built by Arevo, an additive manufacturing company. In 2020, Arevo launched its own 3D-printed e-bike company, Superstrata. . That’s also due to Arevo’s method for 3D printing. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Traptic’s system combines 3D cameras and AI vision with robotic arms capable of plucking the fragile fruit without damaging it. Traptic uses 3D vision and robotic arms to harvest ripe strawberries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

The company has now developed 26 end-of-arm robotic tools, on top of a 3D printing system that can print concrete for exterior, interior and roof structures. housing market. The side-effect of adding a slice of robotics to the mix is that homes that used to take nine months to build can now be instantiated into existence in a month or so.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Save big on equipment, logistics, and support for multiple offices orremote contractors via a central location orthe public cloud Two thumbs-up from remote users Access go-to apps configured for multi-monitor and full frame-rate 3D graphics—without blocky compression artifacts.

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