An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The next generation of Amazon’s Scout bots — the fully-electric autonomous delivery devices the company is hoping to deploy soon — is currently being designed and built by a team of mechanical engineers in Seattle, and not in the most orthodox of settings. Instead of working in sleek labs, Amazon’s engineers have effectively…
Tag: 3D
Mysterious evolution of wonky whale skulls
How we worked out when whales first evolved asymmetrical skulls. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/whale-asymmetrical-skull-evolution…
Single particles of light can be used for remote 3D surveillance
Researchers have taken 3D images by bouncing individual photons from a laser off a building 45 kilometres away, more than 4 times farther than ever before Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250185-single-particles-of-light-can-be-used-for-remote-3d-surveillance/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
Ton Roosendaal, Chairman of Blender Foundation (which accepts donations to support activities to provide free and open accessible services for all Blender contributors), writes: Microsoft makes use of Blender to generate synthetic 3D models and images of humans that can be used to train AI models. For researchers, having access to high quality free/opensource 3D software has proven to be of…
From Rocks To Icebergs, the Natural World Tends To Break Into Cubes
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Researchers have found that when everything from icebergs to rocks breaks apart, their pieces tend to resemble cubes. The finding suggests a universal rule of fragmentation at scales ranging from the microscopic to the planetary. The scientists started their study “fragmenting” an abstract cube in a computer simulation by slicing it with 50 two-dimensional…
Scientists Are 3D Printing Miniature Human Organs To Test COVID-19 Drugs
Scientists are conducting preliminary tests of COVID-19 drugs using 3D printed human organs, eliminating the need to perform tests on animals, or, of course, humans. The Week reports: For example, Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and his team are using 3-D printers to create tiny replicas of human organs, including miniature lungs and colons,…
KFC Tests 3D-Printed Chicken Nuggets In Russia
KFC announced that it will test chicken nuggets made with 3D bioprinting technology in Moscow, Russia, this fall. Business Insider reports: The chicken chain has partnered with 3D Bioprinting Solutions to create a chicken nugget made in a lab with chicken and plant cells using bioprinting. Bioprinting, which uses 3D-printing techniques to combine biological material, is used in medicine to create…
Scientists unveil largest 3D map of the universe ever
Scientists unveiled the largest 3D map of the universe ever, showing its expansion rate over 11 billion years. Source: https://www.livescience.com/largest-3d-universe-map.html
Looks like Venus has dozens of active volcanoes
“This study significantly changes the view of Venus from a mostly inactive planet to one whose interior is still churning and can feed many active volcanoes,” one scientist said. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/venus-3d-model-evidence-active-volcanoes…
Porsche Found a Way To 3D-Print Lightweight Pistons That Add More Horsepower
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: With select bucket seats from the 911 and 718 as well as various classic car parts — including clutch release levers for the 959 — already being produced using 3D printing, Porsche is more familiar with the technology than most. Now, the automaker is taking things even further, 3D printing entire pistons…