Remember how hot at-home 3D printers where for a period of time? They’re still great to have if you’re a designer and you need to prototype things, but the shine has definitely worn off over the past ...

As affordable as 3-D printers have become, they are still out of reach for most people. A two-person team is looking to change that with their $75 handheld 3-D "printer" called the 3Doodler. The ...

Researchers at OpenAI have developed two neural networks that can draw objects based on natural-language user prompts and describe images with a high degree of accuracy. The projects, detailed Tuesday ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending ...

Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have discovered how we see objects in depth. Even if computers are better than humans in chess games, they can't beat us in the field of object ...

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