总部位于英国的机器人公司Q5D技术已经获得了250万美元的种子资金，以资助开发新的多功能接线和电子3D打印机。
Known as the ‘CU500,’ the 5-axis FFF system features a changeable toolhead that can be adapted for the rapid deposition of either polymers, metal pastes or wiring, onto large aerospace and automotive parts or electronic devices.
Using the capital provided byChrysalix Venture Capital，，，，SOSV和UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund，，，，Q5D now plans to refine the CU500. Specifically, with further iteration, the firm believes its machine could be used to create wire harnesses and conformally add conductive tracks to parts, by clients across multiple industries.
Q5D Technology的联合创始人Stephen Bennington表示：“我们的运输系统的快速电气以及从洗衣机到手机的所有功能的越来越多的功能，这意味着布线变得越来越复杂和劳动力密集。”“我们真的很高兴有机会与我们所有的新投资者合作，他们带来了丰富的商业和治理经验，这将使我们专注并以正确的方式发展公司。”
灵活的五轴机器人3D打印
Q5D技术was founded in 2019, following a series of meetings of theBessemer Society，，，，a group composed of serial company founders, innovators and CEOs. Through these summits,cel-uk，，，，having previously launched aKickstarter的Robox 3D打印机，开始为正在开发的新的5轴平台寻求解决方案，然后依靠烤箱腌制的银糊原料。
为了解决这个问题，Cel-UK开始与之交谈M-solv，，，，which had developed a technology that could cure and sinter less-expensive copper inks using a laser, with the firms eventually agreeing to join forces, thus Q5D Technology was born.
因此，Cu500配有其机器人5轴构型以及可互换的聚合物，银和铜兼容的打印头，因此可以被视为其综合劳动的结果。从本质上讲，该机器旨在自动化布线线束的生产，这些线束通常是手动生产的，从白色商品到战斗机。
根据Q5D技术的说法，CU500得益于其内置的最终效果改变器，它可以从沉积的聚合物或粘贴转换为在单个集成平台上进行烧结，嵌入或喷射。该设置还使机器可以以共形式为现有零件添加图层，从而解锁具有复杂3D形状的连续印刷品的生产。
除生产线束外，Q5D技术还说，CU500也能够嵌入电线，以创建具有功率和数据应用的设备，例如光纤传感器和多模式数据纤维，或远离电子产品世界，它也可以将碳或玻璃纤维加固添加到汽车或航空航天组件中。
Q5D Technology的资金回合
毫不奇怪，支持Q5D技术的资金回合的人之一是该公司的长期投资者SOSV，该公司以前不仅为其提供了预种植的融资，而且还以通过''指导它来指导它。哈克斯’启动计划。
与此同时，Chrysalix Venture Capital是该公司资本加薪的最大贡献者，拥有支持制造业和机器人公司等公司的记录Sortera Alloys和应用影响机器人技术。因此，投资者可以成为帮助营销CU500功能的理想合作伙伴，尽管Q5D技术的主张“改变接线行业”似乎还为时过早，但其技术吸引了整个汽车和航空航天的主要参与者的注意。
Already, the company is said to be working with the likes of satellite manufacturerOxford Space Systemsas well asprolific 3D printing adopter赛峰。Q5D技术is also set to partner with莱沃斯， 这University of Exeter，，，，victrex，，，，FDM Digital和GRM Consulting，，，，through a project established to develop new materials and processes for theoverprinting of high-performance polymers。
“Q5D has an exciting opportunity to transform an area of manufacturing that has proven stubbornly difficult to automate and we are looking forward to working with the Q5D team,” added Dr. Charles Haythornthwaite, a Senior Partner at Chrysalix Venture Capital. “Additive manufacturing is bringing new capabilities to manufacturers but it’s relatively rare to see such a strong value proposition for mass production.”
Previous multi-axes printers
多亏了多轴机器人系统带来的保形3D打印功能，Q5D技术并不是第一个构建这样的3D打印机器的Q5D Technology也就不足为奇了。2016年Stratasys展示了8轴Continuous Build 3D Demonstrator，，，，Stratasys那年IMT。
Essentially, the system flipped the traditional FDM process on its side, enabling parts to be produced on a vertical plane with much longer geometries, in a methodology, Stratasys labeled as the “infinite build” process. At the time, the machine’s freeform approach was also said to allow for ultra-precise part-strengthening via material placement, as well as being up to ten times faster than other FDM printers.
In 2019,GKN航空航天unveiled its own large-scale8轴3D打印生产单元格。委托作为与1,780万美元与与Oak Ridge National Laboratory， 这aptly-named ‘Cell 2’ was powered by laser metal deposition with wire technology, and designed to produce aircraft parts at a reduced ‘buy-to-fly’ ratio.
在其他地方，NSCRYPT的“工具中的工厂”系统还可以在共形表面上进行3D打印电子设备，并具有可互换的工具头。使用这些新的“ SmartPump”的最新产品，该公司机器的采用者现在能够将电路连接，天线，应变计和传感器直接打印到弯曲或不规则形状的底物上。
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特色图显示了Q5D技术的CU500 3D打印机。通过Q5D技术照片。
