https://www.srigroup.co.jp/newsrelease/2025/sri/2025_044.html

Sumitomo Rubber Industries has developed a novel rubber material that can be processed with a 3D printer. Until now, it was not possible to create rubber products using a 3D printer. Liquid rubber material that hardens in a short time under ultraviolet light has been developed as a rubber-like material for creating high-precision three-dimensional objects using stereolithography 3D printers. It is expected to be used in robot parts and medical models that take advantage of the high resilience and durability properties of rubber (elasticity, impact resistance, flexibility), which have been difficult to create with 3D printers until now, and development is underway with the aim of future practical use.

The image shows

• Fingers of a robotic hand (blue part)
• 3D modeling of an aortic blood vessel model
• 3D modeling of a heart model