10小时内，3D打印出一条仿生手臂

工程师们用3D打印机在10小时内制造出了仿生手臂

A team of designers and engineers successfully produced a 3D-printed, made-to-measure bionic hand in just 10 hours.

一个由设计师和工程师组成的团队仅用了10个小时就成功地制造出了一只3d打印的、量身定做的仿生手。

Experts from research and education group WMG, which is part of the UK’s University of Warwick, worked with C Enterprise and Printed Electronics to design and print the bionic hand with inbuilt sensors.

来自英国华威大学(University of Warwick)旗下研究与教育集团WMG的专家与C Enterprise和印刷电子公司(printing Electronics)合作，设计并打印了内置传感器的仿生手。

The bionic hand is the result of the IMPACT Project, which is led by Iterate Design and Innovation. The project to develop the hand was inspired by a similar model developed by Ben Ryan of prosthetics specialist Ambionics. Ryan’s son had his forearm amputated after birth and he decided to make him a prosthetic forearm.

仿生手是IMPACT项目的成果，该项目由迭代设计和创新领导。开发这只手的项目的灵感来自于假肢专家Ambionics公司的Ben Ryan开发的一个类似的模型。瑞恩的儿子在出生后就被截去了前臂，他决定为他做一个前臂假肢。

“The IMPACT team have taken this design further by embedding the electrical circuitry linking the motion controlling muscle sensors with the motors and battery into the structure of the bionic hand, thus providing a durable and aesthetic solution,” WMG explained in a statement. Engineers have tested the durability of the printed electrical circuitry to understand how well the component will withstand bending and flexing, it added.

WMG在一份声明中解释说:“IMPACT团队通过在仿生手的结构中嵌入连接运动控制肌肉传感器与马达和电池的电路，进一步深化了这一设计，从而提供了一个耐用和美观的解决方案。”工程师们已经测试了印刷电路的耐久性，以了解该元件在弯曲和弯曲时的耐受力。

A website has been set up that lets people order the made-to-measure bionic hands by providing their arm measurements, as well as their preferred colors.

人们已经建立了一个网站，可以通过提供手臂尺寸和他们喜欢的颜色来定制仿生手。

3D printing is making its presence felt in a growing number of areas, from health to manufacturing and construction. Earlier this year, for example, scientists 3D-printed a working, vascularized heart using human cells.

3D打印正在越来越多的领域发挥作用，从医疗到制造业和建筑业。例如，今年早些时候，科学家们利用人类细胞3d打印出了一颗工作的、带血管的心脏。

The 60th Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base in California is spearheading an effort to produce 3D-printed aircraft parts. The squadron recently became the first field unit in the Air Force to be certified with an industrial-size 3D printer that is authorized for the production of nonstructural aircraft parts.

位于加州特拉维斯空军基地的第60维修中队正带头努力生产3d打印的飞机部件。该中队最近成为空军中第一个获得工业尺寸3D打印机认证的野战单位，该打印机被授权用于生产非结构性飞机部件。

Last year Marines used a specialized 3D concrete printer to create a 500-square-foot barracks room in just 40 hours, according to the Marine Corps. Normally, it takes 10 Marines five days to construct a barracks hut out of wood.

根据海军陆战队的说法，去年，海军陆战队使用了专门的3D混凝土打印机，仅用40小时就创造了一个500平方英尺的营房。通常情况下，10名海军陆战队员需要5天的时间用木头建造一个营房。