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Pantheon Design alleviates supply chain uncertainty with factory-grade 3D printing

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In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design , a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries. Parts created by Pantheon’s 3d printer. The reason? “So their machines break down all the time.”

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Autonomous drone maker Skydio raises $170M led by Andreessen Horowitz

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Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion.

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How does Digital Technology help build the Next Generation of Dental Practices?

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With the adoption of digital technologies, dentists can now take highly accurate and detailed 3D impressions. One such example is X-rays, X-rays no longer require physical film, eliminating the need for cumbersome filing cabinets and storage rooms. 3D Scanner 3D Scanner can produce 3D models within minutes.

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

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The cofounders of Enso , they’ve authored film visual effects tools that help to simulate particles — a data-intensive process. “ This … funding allows us to double down on bringing Enso Cloud to the market as early as next year.” Wojciech Danilo and Sylwia Brodacka are well-acquainted with the struggle.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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The Titanium-clad M-A Titan takes film, and — if that weren’t unobtainable enough — costs an eye-watering $20,000. Airrow makes a device that operates similarly to a CNC machine or 3D printer, Brian reports, with a gantry that moves along X- and Y-axes to get the battery from the charger to the drone and back again. million deal.

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Are lifelike digital humans the future of customer experience?

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” It’s worth noting that Soul Machines’ other co-founder, Mark Sagar, has won Academy Awards for his AI engineering efforts creating the characters in the films “Avatar” and “King Kong.” ” Perhaps the skill behind producing such realistic digital humans is why Soul Machines reported a 4.6x

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Holographic Light Field Displays

Strategy Driven

In 3D displays, it’s worth a million. Leapfrogging advances in materials, photonics, optics, and electronics have precipitated a rising demand for 3D display technologies. According to Market Analysts, the Global 3D displays market is expected to grow by double digits with market size of over $100 billion in the next 5 years.

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