I still remember the first time I saw a 3D printer at work. It felt like magic — objects appearing layer by layer, as if from thin air. But also limited. Flat, rigid, constrained. Now? The game has changed. 🤖 6-axis robotics × 500°C extrusion × multi-angle precision. No... longer just printing layers — but printing in curves, angles, and forms nature itself would approve of. 💡 Here’s what most people don’t realize: this isn’t about size or speed. It’s about geometry. Printing along force lines instead of grids. Eliminating wasteful supports. Creating parts stronger, lighter, and closer to the way bones or shells are formed. That shift is massive. It means lighter aircraft parts. Smarter prosthetics. Custom furniture. Even buildings grown instead of built. Props to Massive Dimension × ABB Robotics for pushing the frontier. And to Florian Palatini for sparking the thought 👏 👉 Question for you: if factories can now print like nature grows, which industry gets disrupted first? #3DPrinting #Innovation #FutureOfManufacturing #Roboticsshow more

has 6 axis printer. prints flat.

None of the pieces shown would be difficult to print on a standard 3D printer, and there are already better/cheaper setups for non-planar 3D printing. The hard part is the robust slicer that works with any model, not the setup for toolhead movement and orientation.

This seems needlessly complicated. There are existing 5 Axis printers that are based on a standard Cartesian printer design but with 2 more axis, so they are far more rigid, stable, and accurate. Not every new robotics idea needs a robot arm.

So cool! Interesting how robotics is changing the printing. Lynda Weinman has a 3D printing lab for clay. I bet she would love a few of these. Amusement parks that are 3D printed would be quite something. Art cars for Burning Man too. But industries? How about Robotics themselves? @kscalelabs made its first robots with 3D printers and they were TOUGH. These would enable much nicer shapes to be manufactured for legs, body, arms, and head.

Patents slow the 3d printing industry down a lot. Most of what gets public attention is stuff with expired patents. Every new idea only reaches mass adoption 20 years after it gets invented. If you first saw a 3d printer in the late 2000s, you were looking at ~1990 tech.

Nothing showcased in this video would have required supports anyway. It might print worse on some plains without filament cooling into lower layer, ending up with the jagged layers like you see on the tops of standard 3d prints. If it can iron at any angle, then maybe.

The problems with FDM printing still exist. Spaces between layers are the weak point. Nothing compares to injection molding. This is still great for prototyping.

it is a software problem, I can give you any arbitrary STL say from thingiverse, now you have to plan the tool path and 3d print it. the thing is are you going to open source under GPL your 6 axis tool path planning? if not it still don't conform to mainstream 3d printing

@CryptoCloaks when?

I have always wondered why the Z axis motor in my Bambu Lab A1 isn’t used for anything other than layer changing. Like why not be able to print up slopes for smoother lines?

Oh nothing, just Sweden casually demonstrating 50+ years of Robotics expertise. "Wow robotics is such a cool emerging tech...." birch, we've been at it since 1974.

Soon they’ll be printing one of these lol 😂

get them to print this :-)

Watched it make a fully customised shoe from thin air in Shanghai

This is cool but will never be as fast as a normal FDM 3D printer.

Cool but that ABB welding cobot costs $55k 😅 so I'll stick with supports that I can recycle back into filament anyway 😂

Nice chat gpt post dumbshit.

Воно набагато дорожче за звичайну модель. Нижче точність через швидкі рухи - інерційність буде давати високі похибки. Або потрібна дуже коштовна механіка. 4 шагових двигуни посередньої якості (з точним друком) проти 7 двигунів високої якості (з менш точним друком).🤔

No matter how many axis do we use, there's a constant restriction: The action of gravity on hot bland plastic recently extruded. That's why we need supports sometimes.

People have been doing this for more than a decade, the challenge is toolpath generation, not the idea or kinematics

Or for less than $500...

The firmware needs to be sooo precise And the gcode generation is another challenge☠️🤧

Unfortunately, 6 axis robot arms are not very precise.

@donsatamoto we need this

@WatcherontheWeb

"only if it can #3Dprint a @Dizingof Design" 😎

robotics was always thought to be the cure, cost being one blocking issue, but the big bugaboo was always layer repeat/stack/add accuracy, with all it's entailing associated issues. I have the next required patent in mind, though, to really make this methodology 'sing'. Patents like that generally have to be sold to the biggest player on the block, so it can be enforced, as china would simply violate with impunity.

@PrusaGuy :0

It's amazing 🤩

Useless, expensive and slow. Who needs yet another flower vase. Metal or Lego-quality ABS, anything else is just eye candy.

This is something on the next-level of tech. but seems a bit complicated

Friendly reminder to dry your filament

Yes this was amazing