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• Addidex Connect 2026: Two Days Inside Robotic Large-Format 3D Printing July 2
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Good coffee, a few robot arms, and two days of unusually open talks: inside the symposium bringing robotic large-format 3D printing together.
By Robert Dehue · 3DPrinting.com
Addidex Connect took place on the working floor of 3D Makers Zone in Haarlem, robot arms and all. Image credit: Canelita Estudio
Walk into 3D Makers Zone in Haarlem and the first thing you notice is that the decor has elbows. Industrial robot arms sit around the workspace like patient colleagues waiting for someone to hand them a job, and for a two-day symposium about robotic large-format additive manufacturing, that setting does a lot of the talking. This is a working floor, not a hotel ballroom, and it sets the tone before a single slide goes up.
The event was Addidex Connect, and it did not feel like a first-ti