This founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year

Entrepreneur Nancy Hairston founded 3D medical-design company MedCAD after designing McDonald’s Happy Meal toys and Bratz ...

Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

Inside the glass-walled Tesla lab where workers train the Optimus robot to act like a human

Have you ever wanted to wipe down a table hundreds of times while Elon Musk watches? Training Tesla's humanoid robot might be the job for you.

Iowa State University students create customized adaptable clothing for kids with disabilities

Each student was paired with a family and designed outfits for their individual models, taking into account their medical, ...
Interesting Engineering

Scientists 3D print muscle tissue in zero gravity to study diseases beyond Earth

In a leap that could reshape how scientists study the human body in space, researchers at ETH Zurich have successfully 3D ...
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Groundbreaking Surgery Uses 3D Printing to Rebuild Man's Face After Horror Accident

When 75-year-old grandfather Dave Richards began a bike ride with friends in July 2021, he expected nothing more than a ...

Fallout leads debated making the original game 3D like Tomb Raider, but couldn't get "the amount of detail" they wanted – something Bethesda eventually achieved in Fallout 3

Fallout Fallout "was a sequel" to Wasteland, says Interplay co-founder, and "we did everything we could not to be sued by Electronic Arts" after the devs "had to pivot out" of the follow-up Fallout ...
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World’s smallest 3D bioprinter could rebuild tissue during surgery

Inspired by the world’s largest land animal, researchers have created and tested what they say is the world’s smallest 3D ...