Sunday, 1 March 2015

Patent filing reveals Amazon's idea to 3D-print products on delivery trucks

Patent filing reveals Amazon's idea to 3D-print products on delivery trucks


Why bother with delivery by drone when you can deliver — and make — the product on the same truck? That appears to be the thinking behind a patent application filed by Amazon Technologies and published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The application, titled “Providing Services Related to Item Delivery via 3D Manufacturing on Demand,” describes a system for electronically taking an order, making it using 3D printing or similar manufacturing methods...

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