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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    'Replicator' 3D printer uses light to create structures in one piece

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    02.01.2019

    A team of researchers from the University of California at Berkeley have unveiled a 3D printer that uses light to create an entire object at once. It's called the Replicator, named after the machines in the Star Trek universe that can synthesize food, water, air and various objects seemingly out of nothing. Before you get too excited, the researchers didn't quite create an exact replica of that fictional machine, but it still offers a new and promising 3D printing technique.