With the user moving the Shaper router over a work piece and motors moving the cutter head, this tool is able to make precision cuts – wooden gears and outlines of the United States – quickly ...

But this plywood 3D-printer isn’t made from plywood – it prints ... is more of a hybrid additive-subtractive CNC machine. A gantry-mounted router carves each layer of the print from a fresh ...

Measuring nearly 20 feet long, the finished piece features floating, dimensional letters made from expanded PVC sheet and cut without the help of a CNC router. Elephants at San Diego Zoo form ...

The award comes with $12,500, which they plan to use to buy a cutting machine, called a CNC router, and test more prototypes.