Turning Today's Ideas into Tomorrow's Technology
From Napkin Sketch to Functional Prototype
Available to all Iowa entrepreneurs, inventors, startups, business owners, physicians, and University of Iowa faculty, staff and students.
Protostudios is a state-of-the-art rapid-prototyping facility with offices located in the MERGE office suite in downtown Iowa City and on the main floor of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. We work with you to develop fully functional prototypes of your idea, allowing you to test, redesign, determine manufacturing paths or demonstrate usability to investors.

Medical

Consumer

Industry

Research
Prototyping


3D Printing & Machining
- Full color, multimaterial
- High strength end use
- Injection molding
- Waterjet and laser cutting

Biomedical Devices
- Anatomical analogs
- Experimental apparatus
- Surgical tools
- Drug delivery
Project Stories

Weather Sensors
Pre-Surgical Models

Medical Device Prototyping
Product Development Process
Investigate

Design

CAD

Engineer

Validate

An Extension of Your Business
Protostudios can provide technical expertise to your already existing team.