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How people are using 3D printing to fight equipment shortages, from tech companies to a high school robotics team making 400 face masks a day

A UK company that normally prints architectural models is now producing ventilator masks and valves

A Belgian 3D-printing company designed a hands-free door opener and an oxygen-mask connector meant to help keep COVID-19 patients off ventilators. 3D printing is on the rise as shortages of medical devices and protective equipment hit hospitals and healthcare workers around the world.A competitive robotics program called FIRST is working withfrom Romeo High School in Michigan to 3D-print face shields for local firefighters.

As word spread, the team increased production and partnered with other schools across the country. To date, the team can print up to 400 face shields per day."It's pretty cool because you take about a day, you come up with this model, and you're able to in, you know, two hours or something, have the physical model in your hand," Cameron Coesens, a member of the high school's robotics team, told Business Insider Today.

 

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