When I hear 3D printing being dismissed for printing shitty plastic toys, I yell on the inside. Yes it's a misnomer, and yes the media is mostly covering the mo

When I hear 3D printing being dismissed for printing shitty plastic toys, I yell on the inside. Yes it's a misnomer, and yes the media is mostly covering the most affordable machines. But the simplicity of the process, and the number of materials available is going to exponentially grow the applications in a very short amount of time. Software is eating the world, and a 3D printer digesting material to make something new is the most direct and literal application of that idea. At PrintToPeer we believe that the same software "operating system" will be able to control all 3D printers--regardless of the process or material--remotely through an API. The robots here are just a hardware "function" driving a subset of the process which could otherwise be made by a 50' tall 5 axis machine (if that were feasible).