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Heart chambers 3D printed from live human cells can beat for months

A new technique enables 3D printing of miniature heart chambers called ventricles that can beat on their own, and may one day help create whole hearts for transplantation

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Glowing shapes

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Shapes 3D printed into living worms could be future of brain implants

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Ukraine is building an AI to help triage shrapnel injuries

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The 3D printed cheesecake

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3D-printed cake made from 7 different pastes and finished by a laser

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The first 3D-printed rocket is about to launch into space

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A mechanical neural network

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Mechanical neural network could enable smart aircraft wings that morph

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A specialized robotic drone sprays layers of cement to create a cylindrical structure in a clean laboratory setting with white background behind a staging area for the structure's construction

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Drone swarm that 3D prints cement structures could construct buildings

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Tweaser based ont he shape of a crow's beak

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Tweezers based on a crow's beak can outperform traditional ones

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3D-printed lenses that can ignore certain objects in frame

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AI-created lenses let camera ignore some objects when taking pictures

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Wood ink printed as a flat rectangle is programmed to form a complex shape after drying and solidifying. (Ruler is marked in centimeters.)

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3D-printed wood could start flat then twist into furniture as it dries

A 3D printing method that uses ink made of wood pulp can be used to make flat objects that morph into 3D shapes as they dry

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Space

Bricks made of dust from the moon and Mars could make space buildings

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Laser-based 3D printer can produce complex objects in any order

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Hackers could sabotage 4D printed objects to cause malicious failures

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3D-printed 'living ink' is full of microbes and can release drugs

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