{"id":2071,"date":"2013-05-18T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/2071-gravity-defying-3d-printing-robot-almost-makes-objects-appear-in-thin-air.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:48:43","slug":"gravity-defying-3d-printing-robot-almost-makes-objects-appear-in-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/gravity-defying-3d-printing-robot-almost-makes-objects-appear-in-thin-air","title":{"rendered":"Gravity Defying 3D Printing Robot (Almost) Makes Objects Appear in Thin Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Mataerial by Petr Novikov, Saša Joki?, Joris Laarman Studio and IAAC is a 3D printing robot that instead of building an object layer by layer, draws forms from any surface out into thin air.<\/p>\n

Working in the same manner as the “3D printing pen<\/a>” except instead of your shaky hand trying to make a recognizable shape from an ooze of hot plastic cooled by a fan, this process uses two thermosetting polymers which set when combined by a precision robot actually 3D Printing in space.  The team also state that CMYK colors can\/could be combined in the same manner to create full color 3D printing using the same method.  The same process could of course be used at a much smaller scale and theoretically multiple robots could 3D print different materials simultaneously onto any surface such as a conductive material and a non conductive material to create electrical pathways.  This is definitely a technology to watch and hopefully their patent application is not so restrictive as to restrict its potential.   <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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