A new 3-D printer inspired by the film “Terminator 2” can create products 25 to 100 times faster than anything else out on the market, claims its maker.

Tech company Carbon3D made a splash on Monday by hosting a TED Talk and publishing a paper in Science that describes industrial applications for a new 3-D printer that dramatically increases the speed of the activity, according to a Washignton Post report.

Joseph DeSimone, a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State, and one of Carbon3D’s co-founders, said that current 3-D printing is “just 2-D printing over and over again,” but this new machine approaches things in a different way — and the result resembles a classic scene in Terminator 2 when the villain robot 1-1000 rises from a puddle of molten metal completely formed.

The technology is called “continuous liquid interface production technology” (CLIP). It involves placing a pool of resin over a digital light projection system and using a special window that allows light and oxygen to travel through the resin like a contact lens. CLIP uses burst of light to harden the resign and bursts of oxygen to keep it from hardening, allowing it to choose which parts of the resign harden and which fall away.

This prevents the defects that arise from standard 3-D printing, which creates an uneven surface due to having to add layer after layer one by one instead of a full model at once. This makes it more useful in industrial applications, the company argues.

Carbon3D believes the technology will allow for smaller, smoother objects that could lead to breakthroughs in tiny sensors in smartphones and other devices — and even in medical situations by creating microneedles.