Just like any plastic, Styrofoam and ... Kiriboard is cut into lattice-like shapes so that it can bend to fill the space between an item and the wall of its box. The cuts give the cardboard ...

To do this, the robot creates a small plastic structure with ... filling dozens of boxes with more than 25,000 3D-printed structures. Why so many shapes? There are countless uses for something ...

The rise of 3D printing has reshaped the landscape of manufacturing ... It’s understanding how to turn plastic into practical shapes through the utilization of extrusion machines, and mastering ...

In recent years, research interest in the 3D printing of metal patterns on plastic parts has grown exponentially, due to its high potential in the manufacturing of next-generation electronics.

Three teenagers in New York designed a cardboard, called Kiriboard, to replace plastic ... like shapes so that it can bend to fill the space between an item and the wall of its box.