Autonomous agricultural robot supported by composite components
3D-printed carbon fiber-filled composite components enable a robotic weeding system prototype intended to replace use of chemical herbicides. Source | Scheurer Swiss GmbH A team of engineering students at ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) is working to develop an autonomous agricultural robot to serve as a sustainable alternative for the use of herbicides in agriculture. The project began in September […]
Model-maker continually adopts new additive manufacturing technologies to meet market demands
Aerosport Modeling “pumps up” its 3D printing capabilities to meet market demands. This one-fifth-scale model of the Glickenhaus 004S racecar was made on Aerosport Modeling and Design’s UnionTech SLA and HP MJF 3D printer. To achieve long-term success in business requires a company to adapt to change, often by adopting technologies that facilitate that change. Aerosport […]
Being a Great Designer is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
You are a great designer. You have innate gifts with 3D and spatial relations and are a creative, original thinker. You have studied and mastered mechanical principles and fundamentals. Through industry experience, you’ve learned about manufacturing processes, rules of thumb and tools and tricks of the trade. You are an interesting “T-shaped” person pulling from a […]