3-D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots - The New York Times

With the technology improving and costs falling, 3-D printing could be poised to play a major role in manufacturing.

Beside each machine in VulcanFormss facility, an operator monitors its performance with a stream of sensor data and a camera image of the laser beams at work, piped to a computer screen. The sound of… [+940 chars]

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