To kick off the 20th year of SXSW Interactive, Bre Pettis, the co-founder of MakerBot (one of the leading companies in desktop 3-D printing), was selected to give the opening remarks. To call Pettis’s ...

3D printing feels a bit stuck. At the dawn of the 2010s, the device seemed destined to reimagine the creative process, putting the power of additive manufacturing within anyone's grasp. But trend has ...

MakerBot has introduced the Method, which it deems the first "performance"-grade desktop 3D printer. Leveraging industrial 3D printing technologies developed by Makerbot's parent company, Stratasys, ...

The merger brings together two industry leaders and their 3D printing technology. The combined resources should result in improved products, which should help adoption. Since desktop 3D printers are ...

Brooklyn startup MakerBot Industries just introduced something really cool. It's a new part for its 3D printers, a "stepper motor-driven extruder that can turn at a consistent rate." That esoteric ...

Beleaguered 3D printing firm MakerBot is attempting to put to rest the string of upsets and bad news that has plagued them for the past few years. MakerBot announced its Method 3D printer, in a ...

MakerBot has announced that it will no longer manufacture its own hardware. Over the course of the next six months, the company will transition the building of its 3D printers and other products to ...

New MakerBot RapidRinse™ fast-dissolving support and ABS-R materials aim to make 3D printing industrial applications with ABS just as easy as printing with PLA RapidRinse is a new and unique ...

Bre Pettis, the C.E.O. of MakerBot, often refers to 3D printing as “the future.” And if the company’s NoHo retail store was created as a place for people to “see, touch, feel, smell” that future, here ...

BROOKLYN - MakerBot is back in the 3D printing hardware game, but it's shifting away from consumers. Almost a decade after inventing the home 3D printing market, MakerBot is now focused squarely on ...

MakerBot, one of the largest and best-known companies in the world of 3D printing, has finally announced a release date (October 2013) and price ($1,500) for its highly-anticipated 3D scanner, the ...

The 3-D printing pioneer MakerBot, frequently touted as the poster child for a tech-driven revival of manufacturing in the city, is downsizing. The Brooklyn-based company recently laid off staff and ...