{"id":443,"date":"2015-09-06T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T13:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/?p=443"},"modified":"2015-09-12T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T19:14:19","slug":"is-amazon-entering-the-3d-printing-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon entering the 3D printing market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/amazon-183750_1280.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-445 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/amazon-183750_1280.png\" alt=\"amazon-183750_1280\" width=\"304\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>It looks like Amazon could be entering the 3D printing business after they recently registered the domain name Amazon3Dprinting.com via the brand protection company MarkMonitor, and filed a patent back in February for mobile 3D printing trucks.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has already made a stab at entering the 3D printing market through the opening of the amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=topnav_storetab_3dp?ie=UTF8&amp;node=8323871011\" target=\"_blank\">3D printing store<\/a>. The wide range of products has been made possible by Amazon working in collaboration with companies like Sculpteo, Sandbox, and ZVerse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-14.11.55.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-06-at-14.11.55.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-06 at 14.11.55\" width=\"967\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, Amazon is still a long way off from being able to compete competitively with the 3D printed model behemoth; Shapeways, who offer a vast range of models in\u00a0a large number of different materials.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/embed.js?hl=en-US&amp;q=3D+printing&amp;tz=Etc\/GMT%2B4&amp;tz=Etc\/GMT%2B4&amp;content=1&amp;cid=TIMESERIES_GRAPH_0&amp;export=5&amp;w=400&amp;h=330\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is hard to believe that the world&#8217;s largest retailer won&#8217;t enter the 3D printing market competitively soon. However, at the moment their recent acquisitions of patents and domain names may simply be for brand protection.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Amazon could be entering the 3D printing business after they recently registered the domain name Amazon3Dprinting.com via the brand protection company MarkMonitor, and filed a patent back in February for mobile 3D printing trucks. Amazon has already made a stab at entering the 3D printing market through the opening of the amazon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Amazon entering the 3D printing market?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[28,27,30,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robots.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}