Roboforming stainless steel

[mrman]

Just watched a review of a new tech that pinched metal into detailed unique shapes. I need them to load up some cyber truck panels and show us what they can do with 3mm stainless. Show me the terminator skull, 3d embossed advertising, dimples like a golf ball.



The company doing it
https://machinalabs.ai/

 

[Coolbreeze704]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Crissa]

Smarter Everyday is a great channel.

Using hard metal styluses like that would work on more metals than stamping. I wonder if they've looked into playing with the temperature; as the metal already heats up as they run over it.

-Crissa

 

[ÆCIII]

Interesting. Sort of like 3D forming or (De)forming in an iterative process, with the time complexities or slow speeds similar to 3D printing.

The ridges caused by the 'end-effectors' could be an issue for final production quality, requiring additional steps. Guess that's why they emphasized it being useful primarily for early development and prototyping, versus scaled production in the early part of the video.

- ÆCIII