3D Printing Is Changing the World

[Music] [Music] in the 3d bioprinting rooms we like to keep everything sterile when you're using cells you don't want to contaminate anything so gloves and then your lab coat and so it's basically you're just printing body parts is that's what's going on right you want to do the honors sure so I'm about to 3d print a human ear the Wake Forest Institute for regenerative medicine is developing methods to manufacture human tissue using specialized 3d printers to fabricate a range of functioning viable body parts so here we have 3d printing skin so the aim of this is basically to make printers where you could print sheets and sheets of it and then basically be able to transplant it on a patient who needs it Wow we have a couple of demos set up here the first one here is a artificial heart valve and it's forcing fluid back and forth and that is an artificial blood vessel it's actually meant to be a carotid artery like in the neck and so then the idea is you could take out the part that isn't working and then put this in how different is this from like using a trinket the exact same concept if you take a 3d CAD file and then you convert that into your printing code and then you can print it the only difference here is that we've got all the biomaterials and your cellular components - and where do where do the cells come from depending on the patient you can take a posture size stamp of cells and then turn it into all the different cell types of the body and then how do you implant it you just sew it on exactly suture it on and cover it up and you're good to go amazing one of the major challenges to the medicine of course it's not having a sufficient number of tissues and organs that you can use to replace in patients and so the concept here is why not just create them how long do you think it is until you can print the whole body well I remember watching the very first west war movie you know it came out in the movie theaters many years ago sure is that possible in the future you never know science has few boundaries in 2009 the patent behind the key method of 3d printing expired and as more followed so did a new revolution in desktop 3d printing printers got smaller and cheaper allowing anyone to print models parts and tools on demand and nerdy hobbyists turn their printing passions into a multi-billion dollar industry so we're at the worldwide headquarters of form labs one of the biggest 3d printing manufacturers in the world and like any respectable startup they've got a ping-pong table and this is max he's the founder and CEO the first 3d printing technologies were invented in the early 80s but it was still really inaccessible to most people who could benefit from it because the machines were so expensive and also really difficult to use and they didn't necessarily see the potential for a 3d printer that would be a lot lower cost and would be more like saying office 2d printer oh here we go yeah it's in the goo there was a lot of excitement at the beginning of this kind of desktop 3d printing wave that 3d printers will be in all of our homes but it's proven to be a lot further off than everyone hoped for cool so if there was sort of a 3d printing pipe cycle now that we're kind of past it what does the future look like 3d printing is used in pretty much every product development process what's coming soon with 3d printing is going into production and so has the potential to take years of product development and into manufacturing and turn that into weeks even Wow that's so that's huge that's huge we're in Boston going to a company called desktop metal that has innovated 3d printing metal for mass production it's a lot of printers so yeah so this is our print form we are now inside of it and what you see is the the printer in action and they're printing parts like you see here on the table you know and the geometry can be you know very simple like a like a gear right and can get very complicated like this which is a pneumatic distribution housing Wow looks kind of steampunk in 3d printed the first 20 years was used for prototyping and now we're going into a new phase of 3d printing where we we go from prototyping into mass production and that has huge implications so whereas before you had a factory that make one engine component in the US and then another component overseas and then they ship the stuff around and that set up the whole trade system that we've basically architected the world around now you can print parts anywhere as you need them to produce a product so we're right at the beginning of a revolution yeah this is a this is a fourth Industrial Revolution in the making in addition to fundamentally altering worldwide economic supply chains now mass-produced 3d printed metal might also upend the way parts are designed from the ground up tools are fairly difficult to use to create very very complex shapes but with additive manufacturing of metal we can create crazy shapes so what we're doing is we're sort of subjecting these parts to this washing machine effect of dynamic transitional forces so what we have is the ability to very quickly create shapes that are very strong and lightweight where basically the cell mass is distributed only where it's needed so like because of machine learning manufactured goods or industrial design will likely mimic biological design absolutely it's not like you tell a computer make it bio-inspired shape is that you tell a computer give me the most efficient shape and the shape that you're getting looks bio while desktop metal is spearheading this new global industrial revolution researchers at MIT are thinking outside the print they're entirely we visited two labs pushing the limits of material science and challenging the way we think of materials themselves essentially printing is a material science chamber like it got us more and more focused understanding like what could materials - how far can we push our products to behave in new ways this is a cellulose based material you'll see that it'll morph you know just with the moisture of my skin so same thing but it only transforms by sunlight you can apply it to windows like glass facades or skylights [Music] the last category of research that we study is self-assembly they'll come together slowly over time they'll make these kind of cubic lattice structures what we're interested in in this scenario is like what's the far future as a fabrication like can we give more and more agency where the materials can make decisions learn adapt perform in ways we've never even imagined whether aided by self-assembly or artificial intelligence turning digital processes into tangible objects is a key factor in how we envision the future of fabrication how would you characterize the work that you do at the Center for bits and atoms we try to understand how digital things become physical things and physical things become digital things now interestingly the founders of computer science fund Noah and Turing the last thing in their life they studied is exactly this question about how computation becomes physical how to design a machine that communicates a computation for its own construction the core research project here is now to actually make that you can think of it as as the Star Trek replicator because that's really what this is this is the future that you're envisioning is it's the future it's on the table in front of us hello so these are what we call relative robots and relative robots are designed to operate specifically within this lattice environment but what we're working on now is we have robots that can crawl in the structure of the next step is to give bolting end effectors to them so that they can build the structure and have an army of these things building a big structure in space I see what you're saying when you have armies of these robots building high-performance structures for you possibilities are gonna be endless it's gonna help us get to Mars it's gonna help us get to other galaxies it's gonna help us explore the universe men they might sound far-fetched but all the technologies we've seen are converging in pursuit of a civilization on Mars and NASA's manufacturing wing is revolutionizing how we'll use 3d printing to get there so this is a laboratory training complex it's pretty much a one-to-one mock-up of the u.s. lab space station right now sexauer back up before the first 3d printer that we ever launched to space the space station is an amazing vehicle we're still somewhat earth dependent with our space station model for Mars we want to be earth independent space does really drive home how important it is to conserve you know what are we really going to need for in space manufacturing to make these parts what you really have to do is have sustainability this is the reef Abra cater so it's the first-ever integrated 3d printer and recycler all-in-one we want to be able to in one machine 3d print the part and then when you're done with it you just feed it back in and it creates new filament and you can make a whole new part what excites me the most is that close to loop life cycle it may seem like a long time before we're going to Mars if it's really not and we have to work on these technologies today to be ready it's a 3d printer gonna help us get to Mars absolutely 1000% back on Earth a start-up in Los Angeles is reimagining how we could rapidly automate the production of orbital rockets so that's a 3d printer yes this is stargates which we developed and built ourselves it's the largest metal 3d printer in the world why did you call it Stargate there's a video game Club Starcraft stargates is what you build to warp in spaceships and so we named it after that because we're working in spaceships thing is massive fundamentally what we're doing is heating and lumen my er okay and then melting it with a very high power 11 kilowatt laser so it's like a big soldering arm with a laser yeah with a laser this is the first large part that we made which was a fuel tank normally getting a tank of this size in like aerospace or rocket quality would take you well over 12 months how long did it take you to make this that's like seven days at times actually that it's developed yeah seven days yeah if you think about 10 years from now if your company starts making more and more rockets what does that mean well our long-term mission is we want to be the first company into 3d printer rocket on Mars so your 3d printing rockets to send a 3d printer to Mars to 3d print more rockets to come back to it yeah with limited time to do something in your life like why not just do something very ambitious the ideas that could inspire other people they go after their dreams much like I was inspired by Starcraft my circa yeah yeah by Starcraft [Music] since the beginning of time the act of making something using tools is one of the most defining traits of humans when people look back on the fourth Industrial Revolution what was the enabling technology is going to be manufacturing and it's going to be manufacturing with total freedom you know it's interesting right because science fiction really does predict many times real science in a way that's what you're seeing right now coming full circle science fiction becoming science fact [Music] you [Music] you

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Published: Tue Feb 11 2020

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