Never heard of this company, but it looks promising. I hope Bambu has something similar in the oven too.
Im going to be negative. Just a forewarning.
I have no doubt that bed tilting systems like that help with overhang performance. But calling it a 5 axis printer is a load of bull.
The range is limited so much the extra movement doesnt matter much.
100% on the 5 axis marketing term lol, but 17 degree tilt is not nothing. Baby step toward an affordable true 5 axis FDM printers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEIw43TD-8s&t=1s
But I’m done buying 1st gen products, gonna wait and see.
Now where have I seen that hotend design before? 
Seriously, though, it’s an interesting concept, but I’m really not sure how they solved bed tilting.
They need four joints that can pivot in two axes, have negligible free motion, AND lengthen when the bed is tilting - but still keep the bed centered between all four leadscrews, and all that has to be precise and repeatable.
The other weakness will be the slicer - needs to be fully custom to the machine, and users will be locked into using it.
I’m holding out for the one that prints in 4 Dimensions. That way the job will finish before it starts.
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This guy has been going to much higher tilt angles for the last 2 years. The three ball joints, one of which mounted on a slider, are easily visible in his videos.
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The TOP.E R1 seems to want to copy that design…
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Thats sort of what I am trying to do with my dual headed printer where colour changes are so quick that the next colour starts before the previous one has finished:)
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I do not understand how their AMS works or how their renderings of the outside of the printer will fit it,
The inside looks like a user-modded bambu
I would be really careful of this one. Perhaps they will have more information closer to launch.