CES 2024 is underway. Working till January 14, the buyer know-how commerce present consists of main firms spanning all the tech sector, with international names equivalent to Amazon, Google and Samsung in attendance. The expo has drawn criticism from throughout the tech trade, and is usually characterised as gimmicky. CES 2024 has definitely seen a concentrate on fashionable and buzzword-heavy know-how over sensible improvements that meet trade wants.
For example, Xpeng Motors has showcased its Xpeng AeroHY eVTOL Flying Flying Automotive, which is but to increase past the idea stage. Elsewhere, Swarovski launched a pair of AI-powered chook watching binoculars priced at an eye-watering $4,799. The truth that CES 2024 is held in Las Vegas does little to foster a picture of a severe trade and utility targeted know-how expo.
From the 3D printing world Creality, Formlabs, Siemens, Goofoo, and Doser, are showcasing new 3D printers and manufacturing options at CES 2024. Nevertheless, the 3D printing presence this yr is beneath that of earlier years. Prior to now firms together with Lynxter, Revopoint, Handddle, and Anycubic have exhibited on the multi-venue present.
The lower in 3D printing exhibitors doesn’t appear to replicate traits within the trade. In line with a latest report from market intelligence agency CONTEXT, Q2 2023 noticed a 12% unit cargo improve and 22% YoY system income development in Private and Equipment & Passion 3D printers. This development has been pushed by the emergence of Desktop 3D printer producers AnkerMake and Bambu Lab, with the latter taking “the non-public 3D printer market by storm,” in line with CONTEXT.
Subsequently, the restricted 3D printing presence is a mirrored image on CES itself, suggesting that publicity on the present ground doesn’t justify the exhibiting charges, which may attain $60,000 for a 30’ x 30’ sales space.
Formlabs bolsters resin 3D printing portfolio
On day one in all CES 2024, resin-based 3D printer producer Formlabs introduced the launch of a brand new resin pumping system, in addition to two new supplies, Polypropylene Powder and Premium Enamel Resin. These new choices have been launched to bolster the effectivity, versatility, and scalability of the corporate’s 3D printing ecosystem which is centered round prototyping and in-house manufacturing.
“3D printing manufacturing is steadily growing, and the introduction of Resin Pumping System, Polypropylene Powder, and Premium Enamel Resin are three large steps in our mission to supply professionals with a full ecosystem of the instruments they should carry their concepts to life,” commented Formlabs’ Chief Product Officer Dávid Lakatos.
In line with Formlabs, its new Resin Pumping System can improve manufacturing with decrease related resin prices and lowered waste, permitting customers in additional industries to combine 3D printing into their workflows.
This new providing is appropriate with Formlabs’ Kind 3 and Kind 3L 3D printers. Dubbed as a ‘plug-and-play’ alternative for traditional one liter cartridges, the Resin Pumping System delivers 5 liters of resin on to the 3D printer’s resin tank. This new product is offered to buy for $199.
Formlabs’ new Polypropylene Powder provides to the corporate’s SLS 3D printing portfolio, and is designed for use with its Fuse 1+ 30W 3D printers. This new materials goals to allow environment friendly and low-cost manufacturing of merchandise generally comprised of polypropylene, the second-most extensively produced commodity plastic on the planet. These merchandise embrace dwelling home equipment, electronics, sports activities tools, customized lab tools, prototypes, and manufacturing instruments.
The Premium Enamel Resin from Formlabs is aimed on the dental 3D printing trade. Formlabs already possesses an ecosystem of over 15 million 3D printed dental elements inside this market. This new resin is reportedly a nano-ceramic stuffed FDA-registered Class II biocompatible materials which may be custom-made to imitate a affected person’s pure enamel translucency and opalescence.
The DoserRx1: addressing the necessity for custom-made remedy
CES 2024 noticed Doser enter the 3D printed personalised remedy discipline with the launch of the DoserRx1, a desktop 3D printer for the manufacturing of personalised pharmaceutical pils.
Leveraging semi stable extrusion (SSE) know-how, the DoserRx1 is designed to satisfy excessive demand for customized dosing. The DoserRx1 can reportedly function at low temperatures, and 3D print as much as 100 tablets per hour. What’s extra, Doser claims that its new 3D printer can produce round 80% of all remedy out there immediately.
The DoserRx1 has additionally been designed for ease of use, utilizing refillable cartridges that come pre-loaded with the mandatory components and formulations for pill manufacturing. The 3D printer is GMP (Good Manufacturing Follow) compliant, and possesses GAMP-5 (Good Automated Manufacturing Follow) aligned capabilities.
In addition to the 3D printing of prescribed remedy, the DoserRx1 has additionally been designed for the fabrication of personalised nutrient and vitamin dietary supplements. Altering the colour, style and the dosage of pils are highlighted as among the customization choices out there with the DoserRx1.
“Think about a world the place each tablet or complement is tailor-made only for you, guaranteeing you have got the optimum dose throughout your therapy. That’s the long run Doser is creating with DoseRx1,” acknowledged Arjan van unen, Doser CEO.
Two new desktop 3D printers from Creality
CES 2024 noticed a notable announcement throughout the desktop 3D printing world, with the launch of two new FDM 3D printers from Shenzhen-based 3D printing producer Creality. Throughout the present, Creality unveiled the K1C, a successor to the Creality and its new flagship 3D printer. Moreover, the corporate launched the Ender-3 V3, a seemingly comparable providing to the Ender-3 V3 KE.
The Creality K1C, very similar to the K1, is an enclosed CoreXY 3D printer with most 3D printing speeds of 600 mm/s. Notably, the “C” within the title of Creality’s new 3D printer stands for carbon, with the K1C able to 3D printing with carbon fiber filament together with commonplace PLA.
While the entire technical specification of the K1C are but to be disclosed, this new 3D printer options an all metallic hotend able to reaching and sustaining 300℃, and sports activities a brand new construct plate and improved motor system.
Particulars are additionally restricted for the Ender-3 V3. Nevertheless this new addition to Ender sequence has been confirmed to supply 600 mm/s 3D print speeds, in addition to a 220 x 220 x 250 mm construct quantity.
Siemens’ launches new AI and VR choices
Throughout CES 2024, Industrial manufacturing agency Siemens has made quite a lot of bulletins regarding synthetic intelligence (AI) and immersive engineering to allow the expansion of an ‘industrial metaverse.’
One such announcement was between Siemens and Japanese tech large Sony. This new partnership will see the 2 firms introduce a brand new platform that mixes Siemens’ Xcelerator software program portfolio with Sony’s new spatial content material creation system, which options the corporate’s XR digital actuality headset.
By means of the headsets 4K OLED Microdisplays and controllers, this new platform will permit designers and engineers to work together with 3D objects and create new design ideas in digital actuality. It’s hoped that this new providing will kickstart content material creation for what the businesses are calling the ‘industrial metaverse.’ Referred to as Siemens’ NX Immersive designer, this providing shall be launched commercially later within the yr.
At CES 2024, Siemens has additionally introduced that it’s strengthening its partnership with Amazon Net Companies. By means of this collaboration, the businesses intention to extend the benefit at which enterprise can construct and scale generative AI purposes.
By means of this partnership, Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock with Mendix, a low-code platform a part of the Xcelerator portfolio. Amazon’s bedrock service gives a alternative of high-performance basis fashions from numerous AI firms by way of a single API, in addition to safety, privateness, and accountable AI capabilities.
Lastly, Siemens introduced an extra replace to its Siemens Xcelerator software program portfolio, launching the Siemens Xcelerator Developer Portal. This new addition to Xcelerator is marketed as a ‘first-of-its-kind’ platform that consolidates all of Siemens’ APIs and developer sources.
The portal is designed to supply a unified platform for builders to entry and discover Siemens and companion APIs. Siemens has additionally collaborated with Microsoft so as to add an AI chatbot to the portal, which it hopes will improve the event expertise.
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Featured picture reveals the 2023 CES Conference Middle in Las Vegas. Picture by way of Lynxter.
