Robo-Turtle Gets 3D Printed Beak After Being Hit By Boat Propeller

A LOGGERHEAD turtle that lost its beak after it was ripped off by a boat propeller has had a new one 3D printed.

BTech Innovation, a Turkish biotechnology company that specialises in 3D medical prosthetics used CAT scans for the painstaking process of creating a computer model of the animal’s beak.

Afterwards a prosthetic replacement was made from titanium inside a 3D printer and attached to the turtle during a groundbreaking two and a half-hour surgery....

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