3D printing promises to be the gateway to a world where a person's ideas are literally made manifest. Draw it up on a computer, hit the print button and a short while later, there's what you just ...

Footage shows the automated wood-carving machine creating an intricate sculpture of a woman using a fusion of 3D printing in China. The machine elegantly sculpted every detail of a 'Chen Yu Luo Yan' ...

The artist must first produce a design, then create a master figure; only after that can manufacturing begin. On behalf of the company 3D Wood, Goetz' s team of scientists have now developed a new ...

3D printers are the appliance of choice for a new generation of makers keen to rapidly prototype straight from their computer. But many materials with which 3D printers can produce items have ...

Wood shavings have been turned into 3D printer ink to make objects that start off as damp, flat sheets and then twist and warp into shape as they dry. This method of 3D printing could make wood sturdy ...

Inside a workshop near Boston, a six-foot-long 3D printer is churning out furniture that looks indistinguishable from wood, built layer by layer from sawdust that otherwise would have been wasted. “We ...