3D Printed Dog Nose Helps Researchers Understand Dogs' Sense of Smell

Humans have been trying to harness the power of a dog's nose for a long time, but even the best electronic scent-detection devices, which try to emulate dog noses, aren't quite up to snuff. Matthew Staymates, a mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was the lead author on a recently published paper that offers new insight into how a dog's nose works, and how it can be applied to modern detection equipment. Staymates used a Stratasys digital materials 3D printer, from the Connex series, to print out a replica of a female Labrador retriever's nose, and attached it to an electronic detector, to mimic how an actual dog smells. Read more at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/157560/3d-printed-dog-nose/

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and there's me thinking it was bout a prosthetic nose for an actual dog :-)