Scott Summit explores where 3D printing is headed: manufacturing in space, printed housing being developed at USC, and bioprinting tissue at Berkeley and UPitt. He lays out three areas he sees as genuinely transformative for the technology.
The question is what's the trajectory for 3D printing and additive manufacturing? That is a huge topic and that's a really exciting topic. This is Columbus hitting that first rock and saying there's something out there and I don't know how big it is, but it's big. 3D printing is going some big places. I could spend the rest of the day talking about it, but I think the two interesting things, three interesting things, 3D printing in space, that's going to be huge. That will happen is taking shape. 3D printing houses for much cheaper and much better quality of everything you look for a house for, that is taking shape down at USC. And 3D printing in biologics is the other one that's happening in Berkeley, at UPitt, at a number of these places. We'll soon be able to 3-dimensionally print tissue and the promise there being that this will all be irrelevant when you can 3-dimensionally print out of cultured cells a living tissue bolt it on, connect the blood flow, and you can walk off. Okay, that's the simplification, but that is all in the works. So, yeah, 3D printing is just in a very, very nascent stage right now, and the trajectory is looking pretty exciting.
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