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Shiyin Tech's self-service 3D food printers let you create your own desserts

  • China
  • 4 min read
  • Feb 14, 2020
  • By Li Yuan

A 3D-printed white chocolate castle by Shiyin Tech's Panda machine © Shiyin Tech

Anyone with a smartphone can use one of 200 Shiyin Tech 3D printers to produce a chocolate dessert in under five minutes

Ever imagined you could 3D-print your own chocolate? And do so using your mobile phone, while at a shopping mall?
In some cities in China, now you can. Shiyin Tech is launching self-service 3D food printers in malls, libraries, theme parks, science museums, aquariums and tourist attractions, first in Shanghai and Hangzhou, where the company's based.
Named Panda, Shiyin Tech’s self-service 3D chocolate printer looks like a vending machine and is a little taller than an average Chinese adult. Anyone with a smartphone can, using WeChat, China’s ubiquitous social media app with over 1.1bn us...

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Edited by Wang Xiao'e, S. Mani

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