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AON3D closes $11.5M Series A, partners with Astrobotic to send 3D-printed parts to the moon

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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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Nfinite bags $100M to give e-commerce 3D flare

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The company, headquartered in France, has developed a SaaS-based visual e-merchandising platform with tools for creating 3D images for e-commerce. Based on nfinite’s performance in the past year, this is an area ripe for both e-commerce and venture capital investors.

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Mooji is 3D printing plant-based meat

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million seed planned to accelerate its 3D printing technology. On the one hand, there’s 3D printing. Leveraging technologies developed by Harvard SEAS (where co-founder Jochen Mueller did his postdoc), the company is working to produce a system that can perform the process quickly, inexpensively and at scale.

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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

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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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Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing

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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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Hugging Face releases a 3D-printed robotic arm starting at $100

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Hugging Face, the startup best known for the AI developer platform of the same name, is selling a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects and perform a few other basic chores.

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ConocoPhillips enlists 3D printing for supply efficiencies on Alaska’s North Slope

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Carlo had an inkling that 3D printing could really change the game.” Mathur, who held tech chief roles at Staples and Biogen before coming to ConocoPhillips in 2021, is referring to Carlo De Bernardi, a principal engineer at ConocoPhillips responsible for scaling the company’s adoption of 3D printing.

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