3D Prototyping

Interesting Engineering | April 03, 2020

Virtual reality has long been at the forefront of overhyped technologies. Sure, it's a cool party trick to play a video game in VR, but no one can actually utilize the technology in their daily life... right? Virtual reality, or VR, along with augmented reality, AR, and mixed reality, MR, are growing more prominent in their use within a variety of industries. From video games to art, and even to engineering. More mainstream VR devices and platforms are helping normalize the technology, like ...

Assembly Magazine | April 13, 2020

Production-ready, 3D-printed automotive parts have been slowly entering the market the past few years. Now, they’re as important as the thousands of metal and plastic parts produced using traditional casting, injection molding, stamping and machining processes. Techniplas LLC, a global designer and manufacturer of automotive products and services, is well aware of this trend. Early in 2018, the company began an Open Innovation Program for 3D printing companies to validate and mainstream th...

TuSimple | March 26, 2020

TuSimple, an autonomous driving company focused on self-driving Class 8 commercial trucks, will be partnering up with ZF, one of the largest Tier 1 suppliers of automotive parts and technologies, to develop and commercialize technology for autonomous trucks according to an announcement this morning. Founded in 2015, TuSimple currently operates a fleet of more than forty SAE Level 4 autonomous trucks that make up to 20 self-driven trips -- with a safety engineer and driver onboard -- between Ariz...

The Guardian | July 17, 2020

“We don’t have a car or a bit of a train hanging from the ceiling in our department,” says Dr Claire Lucas, director of studies for systems and biomedical engineering at the University of Warwick. “We’re making face masks at the minute, and we’ve got other humanitarian engineering, such as a shaking bridge that helps us with earthquake modelling. It helps visiting prospective students rethink what engineering really is.” That rethink is ne...