With a little bit of silicon and a 3D printer, Buttercup the duck is now waddling around Feathered Angels Sanctuary. When Buttercup hatched on November 12, 2012 his left foot was turned backwards.

A software engineer 3D-printed a duck foot that allowed one disabled duck to begin walking properly after the little creature suffered from a backward foot that made getting around painful and ...

Buttercup the duck was born with his left foot turned backwards, making it nearly impossible and extremely painful to walk. But now he’s waddling again with a 3D-printed foot. Buttercup was born ...

Polly the duck is missing more than half of her bill. Students at Southwestern University in Texas are working to create a prosthetic bill using a 3D printer. Photo by Jimmy Smith Polly the duck ...

Humans aren’t the only ones benefitting from 3D printed prosthetics. Buttercup is a fluffy duck who was born with a backwards foot, causing her to hobble around the other ducks. Thanks to 3D ...

Buttercup the duck was born with a strange birth defect. One of the little duckling's legs faced the wrong direction. To remedy the situation, 3D printing technology has been used to create a ...

This approach allows the duck to be made with functional mechanical elements inside, and as it’s rolled along, its beak opens and closes. Availability of the 3D printed element will be limited ...

This duck is named Buttercup ... which he modeled using 3D software. Once the artificial mold was designed, Garey sent the design to a 3D-printing company called NovaCopy, who printed out and ...

After spending some time out in the cold Wisconsin winter, Phillip the duck’s flippers were frostbitten and damaged. Lucky for Phillip, 3D printing has been proliferating in the human world and ...

Thanks to a few thoughtful individuals and a 3D printer, Dudley the duck has a new lease on life. Still a duckling, Dudley and his siblings were placed in a cage at an animal shelter with some ...

So the sanctuary teamed up with Novacopy, a 3D printing business, to build a brand new prosthetic foot for the duck. Thanks to new technology, it was possible to print up a mold of the bird's left ...