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The dream of the Replicator—a machine that can create or copy any object—has mesmerized us ever since Star Trek used one to conjure a glass of water out of thin air. Yet, like so much other sci-fi ...

Last month, MakerBot began offering its Smart Extruder+, a new and improved print head for its flagship Replicator and Replicator Mini desktop 3D printers. The company claims the new Smart Extruder+ ...

"Desktop fabrication machine" may sound more like an item in a sci-fi book than a device you can buy today, but they do exist, and they're getting better. Makerbot's new Replicator 2 can print out 3-D ...

After hearing the news that NASA had “emailed” a wrench up to an astronaut on the ISS through its 3D printer, there was one word that kept coming up: Replicator ...

Laser printing of metals has proven itself as a viable manufacturing process. No longer just for "impossible to machine" or waifish parts where material characteristics were the design feature needed ...

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