Global corporation Xerox, selling business services and document technology products, is currently developing electronics 3D printing techniques to produce smart devices.
According to Janos Veres, lead of the Novel and Printed Electronics Program at the company’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Xerox is working on electronics 3D printing technologies that will allow for creating smart devices of any shape. Veres explains: “Most electronics devices that you have today, they are electronics that we build on a board which is rigid. Once we made that board we put it in a box. Every single electronics piece looks like that. …We should be able to make electronics to the shape we dream of.” 3D printing would enable designers to create new configuration of electronics with complex shapes, and the placement of sensors is not constrained by the common design.
Their goal is to develop a 3D printing process that allows for the production of any device, no matter how complex, including phones, wearables, computers and components in automotive or aerospace, equipped with customises sensors and batteries.
“There is an incredible opportunity for printing and it truly opens an entirely new field, and make production on demand and local instead of being the privilege of large factories. That’s the power of printing,” Veres adds.
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