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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

These days, the ETH Zurich spinoff has even bigger ambitions, with plans to scale its tiny printing tech in a bid to bring additive manufacturing/3D printing into the world of mass manufacturing. The 80 × 115 micrometer picture of clownfish was a great talking point for a firm in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When Pradyut Paul was a hardware engineering program manager at Apple, he saw firsthand the challenges of building and sharing hardware products using antiquated tools like email and spreadsheets. Users can use Bild’s web-based viewers to interact with 3D CAD, board files, bill-of-materials, schematics, drawings and simulation data.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. “Five Flute gives these teams the ability to collaborate seamlessly around engineering issues without ever leaving the native 3D design programs where they already work.”

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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

AUGUST 29, 2021

Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up. This round of funding was led by Hanwha Hotel & Resort, which is a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Corporation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Recent months have also found the company enlisting other 3D printing vets. Metal 3D printing company Markforged announces plans to go public via SPAC. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With a smattering of notable exceptions, however, 3D printing has largely been focused on rapid prototyping and limited-run, personal products. Metal 3D printing companies like Mantle represent an intriguing use case on the road to truly scaling the tech to mass manufacturing. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Nenad Baki? and Luca Ascani.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The hardware is often priced into four-figures, but the company earns consistently high marks from reviewers and users alike. We’re excited to bring Audeze’s expertise into the PlayStation ecosystem, building on the great strides we’ve made with PlayStation 5’s Tempest 3D AudioTech and the Pulse 3D wireless headset.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

eYs3D Microelectronics , a fabless design house that focuses on end-to-end software and hardware systems for computer vision technology, has raised a $7 million Series A. The new funding will also be used to expand eYs3D’s product development and launch a series of 3D computer vision modules.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

ICON, which is best-known for its 3D-printed homes, has been working on Project Olympus for some time. The company is planning on working with samples of lunar regolith and bringing its hardware and software into space to help it develop construction approaches that can best function in the cold, low-gravity atmosphere of the moon.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Creating a disruptive hardware components startup can be quite exciting. But hardware startups are challenging. So there’s no point rushing when building a hardware startup. We 3D printed it and actually used some tape on the inside to keep things in place. Let’s be honest.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Also participating is HCVC (Hardware Club), alongside existing investor Change Ventures. The 3D rendering or virtual tour also usually requires professional help. Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform. It has now raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures.

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IDC

JULY 26, 2024

India's AI and GenAI adoption is rising in software, services, and hardware, aiming to become a manufacturing hub by leveraging AI, robotics, IoT, and 3D printing.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Moreover, there can also be a 3d programmer who can manage and render the 3D elements of the game. System Hardware Developers. And this is the role of the system hardware developer who develops the software behind the software. And if you want to be a system hardware developer. Software Developer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Relativity aims to reduce the cost and increase the speed of assembling a launch vehicle by 3D printing it from tip to tail fin. The switch from a series of machines and assembly lines with fixed tooling to a handful of enormous custom 3D printers both simplifies the building process and enables new capabilities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The sweetest taboo : Haje gets all fanboy about Sugar Lab buying back its company from 3D Systems, to take 3D-printed foods mainstream. Ori Mor writes that hardware startup founders have a uniquely hard time. “There’s no point rushing when building a hardware startup,” says Mor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Neasty’s approach relies on 3D scanning technology found in the iPhone X or later (aka, the TruthDepth camera for FaceID) — so (currently) it only works for a subset of iOS users. Neatsy wants to reduce sneaker returns with 3D foot scans. But it’s eyeing expanding its fit recommendations with the seed funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Startups are hard work, but the complexities of global supply chains can make running hardware companies especially difficult. Instead of existing within a codebase behind a screen, the key components of your hardware product can be scattered around the world, subject to the volatility of the global economy. Overorder critical parts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

CEO of Neubility Sangmin Lee told TechCrunch that it’s been focused on developing hardware and software for its latest effort, delivery robots, since late 2019. Fittingly for a startup now focused on mobility, Neubility has come a long way from its original product, a haptic glove device for video games.

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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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CIO

APRIL 12, 2024

SoC helps reduce power consumption, and can help ensure devices require less space and cost less to build from discrete components, making it an appealing choice for businesses developing technical hardware.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

And in analyzing that backscatter, and combining it with a more commonplace 2D infrared image and a 3D depth map, software could more accurately identify what an object was. When he pointed infrared beams at various objects, they would reflect the beam back in different ways, depending on what they were made of.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

3D printing? Hardware and software for apartment buildings? You can viscerally feel dreams melting away to disappointment as founders, employees and investors still holding shares in the newly public entities watch their wealth dwindle. The mess is not sector-specific. Not a good SPAC target. Not looking good. E-scooters?

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2023

“The AI solution stack varies according to how it will be used, which implies one must have intimate understanding of the AI use case — your AI workers and the end domain in which they work — and how to map the needs of the use case to the silicon, software, system hardware, and services.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Cocos is best known for its cross-platform, open source engine for 2D mobile games, but many have argued it has fallen behind in the 3D era. To play catchup, the Beijing-based company added 3D capabilities to its engine last year. “The progression of mini games is a revolution in China,” suggested Stapley.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Called the 3D Chamber, this chamber is a significant part of the Puffco Peak Pro (this is where the magic happens). Like the name implies, the 3D Chamber heats the material on all sides. The user has to update the firmware of the Peak Pro to use the 3D Chamber. The company sent me a 3D Chamber to try out and I love it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

PassiveLogic hosts a software environment, Autonomy Studio, where customers can create building system models from CAD or 3D models. Applications written in Quantum can be deployed within PassiveLogic’s control hardware — the aforementioned Hive. Another potential pitfall is the proprietary nature of digital twin platforms.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

According to Seoul Robotics CEO Hanbin Lee, the LV5 CTRL TWR uses an automatic transmission and connectivity built into vehicles to maneuver them autonomously without requiring hardware. We now offer three plug-and-play LiDAR development kits that include all the components necessary for any organization to get set up with a 3D system.”

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The idea is to take a complex 3D structure and accomplish what it does using a precisely engineered “2D” surface — not actually two-dimensional, of course, but usually a plane with features measured in microns. The 3D sensing thing is Metalenz’s first major application, but the company is already working on others.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Oh, and you don’t even need to read the article, but do yourself a favor and look at the pictures in this piece I published this morning: BMF’s microscopic 3D printing powers are magnificent, and I’m awestruck by how far 3D printing has come. The TechCrunch Top 3. Startups and VC. too, Frederic reports.

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