The best 2019 videos about 3D printing!

2019 has been a year full of exciting developments for the additive manufacturing industry across all sectors. New machines have been introduced to the market, many applications have broken records, better performing materials have been developed, etc. Fortunately, most of these innovations have been filmed, so we can show them to you today! Well-known companies and institutions such as HP, Desktop Metal or Harvard University made headlines in 3D printing this year – this shows us where the industry is at and what is possible in the future! Picked month by month, watch the best 2019 videos about 3D printing below!

1- NovaMeat’s plant-based 3D printed meat

The Spanish startup NovaMeat wants to limit the excessive consumption of meat in the world, which is also very harmful to the environment. To do this, it has developed a meat substitute based on a mixture of proteins from rice and peas that can be 3D printed. This process is very complex because the muscle structures and consistency of ‘normal’ meat have to be reproduced in CAD modeling. In total, this production would be 95% more efficient in terms of land consumption, water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional production methods. This is an alternative to meat that is worth mentioning!

2- Israeli researchers develop a 3D printed human heart

A team of Israeli scientists has developed a bioprinted heart that they believe perfectly matches the immunological, cellular, biochemical and anatomical properties of the patient’s organ. This is an extremely important breakthrough in the field of medicine, especially since they have succeeded in creating its blood vessels and tissues from stem cells. The heart is about the size of a cherry or the heart of a rabbit, with a printing process that took about 3 to 4 hours to complete.