An updated edition of the January 27, 2026 article. 3D Printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has fundamentally reshaped product design and fabrication. Since its emergence in the 1980s, this ...

A fascinating proof-of-concept shows how CAD could be done via AI in the future. Today we’ve seen AI tools enter the 3D modeling space with either text-to-3D or image-to-3D solutions. Text or images ...

MIT researchers have developed a system to generate 3D models that can better function in real life when printed.

In this article, we take a look at how the robots see the world around them, what it takes to train them for deployment, and ...

Apple researchers have created an AI model that reconstructs a 3D object from a single image, while keeping light effects consistent across viewing angles.

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk as part of a larger $1 billion round from backers, including AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Nvidia ...

While working on a project that involved super-thin prints, [Julius Curt] came up with selective ironing, a way to put designs on the top surface of a print without adding any height. For those ...

Two-dimensional (2D) shapes are completely flat. 2D shapes can be found printed in a book or on a website. 2D shapes have sides and corners. A rectangle has 4 straight sides and 4 corners. A square is ...

Tessellation is when shapes fit together in a pattern with no gaps or overlaps. These squares make a tessellating pattern. You can make a tessellating pattern from just one type of shape or a number ...

Generates synthetic tasks where multiple shapes are displayed with exactly one being asymmetrical. The task is to identify and circle the asymmetrical shape with a red circle. Each sample pairs a task ...