Team Owl Works Wins Frontier Tech Showdown

[Clare S]

Last week, the highly anticipated Inside 3D Printing Seoul event, themed "The New Era of Digital Manufacturing," took place at KINTEX in South Korea. One of our favorite parts of Inside 3D Printing events is the Frontier Tech Showdown, which is the premier pitch event for seed-stage startups in the fields of 3D printing, robotics, and virtual reality. Venture capital firm Asimov Ventures sponsored the startup competition at last week's I3DP Seoul, and presented the winner with an uncapped SAFE for $5,000. The big winner was none other than Team Owl Works, which developed a resin-curing 3D printing process called LIPS, which stands for Light Induced Planar Solidification and is not dissimilar to CLIP technology. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/180143/owl-works-wins-frontier-tech/

[keith_3d]

Owl Works:
2015: 3D Printer: not delivered (Kickstarter)
2016: E7, "intermediate product" towards Delta: not delivered (Kickstarter)
2016: Delta: not delivered (last update December 2016, in June 2017: "Action required!" (Kickstarter, Indiegogo)
actual status: "expected shipment: June 2017"

Altogether: Owl seems not to be very reliable - 2 years of activity/development, no results yet.

Is this "frontier tech"?

[curious aardvark]

IT does seem to be so these days.
Companies seem to come up with a tech idea and then just get grants and endowments.
Carbon are the prime example os this.