DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) -- The Helping Hands Project has spread to universities and colleges across the Triangle. Students use 3D printers to make prosthetic hands for children who need them.

OREM, Utah (KUTV) — A Utah Valley University student is finding a way to use his passion for 3D printing to help others. And it turns out, that hobby is working to his own benefit as well. Matt Thomas ...

Slowly but surely, 3D printing machines at the University of the Virgin Islands are working to create low-cost functional prostheses for those who are missing limbs. Timothy Faley, professor of ...

SELDEN, Long Island (WABC) -- Students at a high school on Long Island used a 3-D printer to create a prosthetic hand, and now, they're hoping to be connected with someone who needs one. Students in a ...

Early in the spring semester, Brookdale Community College professor Lisa Hailey introduced her engineering students to a 3D printer. She also offered to help anyone who had a special project in mind.

(NEW YORK) — These middle school students on Long Island, New York, are quite literally lending a helping hand. Since late November of last year, a group eighth-grade students from Howard B. Mattlin ...

Recently, I wrote about a man in Nebraska named Adam Cutshall, who got a 3D-printed finger replacement 20 years after a tragic mishap. He made the mistake of using power tools while intoxicated and ...

It’s exciting how much 3D printing has enabled us to produce pretty much any shape for any purpose on the fly. Among the most thoughtful uses for the technology that we’ve seen are the many ...

Extremely realistic-looking prosthetic eyes can now be 3D-printed in a fraction of the time it would normally take to produce the eyes by hand, scientists demonstrate in a new study. This 3D-printing ...

For fans of the “howcatchem” mystery subgenre, there was something especially satisfying about Lieutenant Columbo’s trademark squint. As the main character of the iconic police procedural first airing ...