The information is handed off to a solution planner agent which creates an actionable plan. This is then given to the executor agent, which interacts with the 3D printer through the API to get the desired outcome. All four agents are managed by the supervisor agent, ensuring that all the information is relevant and up to date.
What’s crucial with this system is that it does not use custom LLMs trained on a specialized dataset to work effectively. Instead, it only used the base ChatGPT-4o and domain-specific, generalized structured prompts that the team developed. This makes it simple to implement and improve 3D printing performance and efficiency.
"The future is adaptive," Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Amir Barati Farimani said. "The integration of LLMs into the 3D printing process represents a significant advancement. As these models evolve, their ability to reason over richer, multimodal data will unlock even more capabilities. For now, this work provides a foundation for truly intelligent and autonomous manufacturing systems, capable of achieving unprecedented levels of precision and reliability."
If this tech becomes widely adopted, perhaps the cameras on our 3D printers will eventually feed an LLM control loop instead of being used for manual babysitting. Until that future arrives, though, print failures and plastic spaghetti will have to be prevented through manual monitoring and intervention.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/researchers-use-agentic-ai-to-monitor-and-correct-3d-prints-system-catches-errors-in-real-time-uses-modular-design-to-work-on-different-makes-and-models#main
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