3d printing
8 articles about 3d printing in AI news
3D-Printed Rocket Uses $5 Sensor for AI-Guided Mid-Flight Correction
A builder created a fully 3D-printed rocket that uses a $5 sensor and AI to recalculate its trajectory mid-air. This showcases accessible, real-time control systems outside traditional aerospace.
Browser-Based Text-to-CAD Tool Emerges, Enabling Local 3D Model Generation from Prompts
A developer has built a text-to-CAD application that operates entirely within a web browser, enabling local generation and manipulation of 3D models from natural language descriptions. This approach eliminates cloud dependency and could lower barriers for rapid prototyping.
Meshcraft Democratizes 3D Creation: Multi-Engine AI Platform Bridges Text-to-3D Gap
Meshcraft emerges as a web-based platform offering text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation with selectable AI engines. The tool provides both free and premium options, addressing quality bottlenecks in 3D generation through engine optimization rather than image model refinement.
ORCA Dexterity Open-Sources Three 3D-Printable Robotic Hands with Self-Dislocating Joints for ~$2,200
ORCA Dexterity released STL files for three tendon-driven anthropomorphic robotic hands featuring self-dislocating joints for reliability. The OrcaHand Touch variant includes high-resolution fingertip sensors with 83 taxels per fingertip at 1mm resolution.
Open-source project turns Claude Code, Codex into CAD engineer
An open-source project uses Claude Code and Codex to generate editable 3D models from text, exporting STEP, STL, G-code, and integrating Bambu Lab. Runs fully offline.
OpenSCAD Web: Open-Source Text-to-CAD Tool Runs Fully In-Browser via WebAssembly
A developer has released an open-source text-to-CAD tool that runs entirely in a web browser using WebAssembly. Users describe a 3D object in plain English, optionally upload a reference image, and receive a parametric model with adjustable dimensions that exports directly to 3D printer formats.
Building a Production-Ready Agentic Fraud Detection System
Towards AI published Part 1 of a 4-part series on building a production-ready agentic fraud detection system. The system uses three cooperating agents, LangGraph orchestration, human-in-the-loop, guardrails, LangSmith observability, and AWS deployment — moving beyond typical notebook-based fraud detection write-ups.
MIT Open-Sources AI That Turns Photos Into Editable CAD Models
MIT open-sourced an AI that turns photos into editable CAD files, threatening $150/hour modeling work. No benchmarks or training details disclosed.