The stent manufacturing industry, as it stands, uses extremely inefficient and unaffordable methods, such as laser-cutting, to fabricate stents. These methods require both require extensive infrastructure, meaning manufacture must occur off-site, and follow a one-size-fits-all model. The ARTHETA-0 is a 3D printer with a novel motion system that specializes in printing vascular-stents, addressing all major industry shortcomings. 

It uses a novel, simplistic motion system that utilizes polar coordinates and a horizontally-static print bed to print stents made of Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU). This allows the ARTHETA-0 to be incredibly affordable at under $500 (versus industry standards which exceed $100,000), while still printing stents with incredible accuracy and precision (due to its innovative motion system that can print cylindrical structures with almost no ovality). The simplistic fused deposition modeling (FDM) system makes the ARTHETA-0 extremely accessible.