HP's Metal Jet 3D printer may build your next car's innards
https://www.cnet.com/news/hp-metal-jet-3d-printer-may-build-next-cars-parts/
Humans have figured out lots of ways to shape metal -- casting it with a mold, stamping it, drilling holes and milling surfaces in a machine shop, even zapping it with a laser. Well, now you can add a new method: 3D printing.
A number of companies offer metal 3D printing, which creates products and components layer by layer with a computer-controlled system tracing its lineage to ordinary inkjet printers. But on Monday, printing giant HP announced it's entered the market with the ambition to dramatically lower prices with a $400,000 product called the Metal Jet.