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.