Dieless robotic sheet forming is a fully digital process for forming large sheets of metal rapidly into complex contours. Robots fitted with various end effectors work on each side of a suspended ...

How do you use a 3D printer to bend metal? One way would be to take it to a machine shop and offer to trade the owner your printer for some time in their shop. A smarter way is to do like [Jaba 3D], ...

Forming complex shapes in metal sheets is still a laborious process, especially if you aren’t needing more than a couple parts so stamping doesn’t make sense. That may change with Digital Sheet ...

This is the final article in our six-part series, and this time we'll cover the versatile world of hammerforming! I'm using the word "hammerforming" in a very particular manner here. Some people think ...

A machine called the “RoboCraftsman” will soon be at work at the University of Dayton, where researchers and engineers are making sure the California-produced, AI-driven tool can produce sheet metal ...

While applications vary by industry, quality metal fabrication conforms to several basic rules and requires fundamental processes. While there are many bending solutions and strategies, nothing can ...

In sheet-metal fabrication, parts are formed from metal sheets by punching, cutting, stamping, and bending. 3D CAD files are created using a host of different CAD packages and then converted into ...

The RAPM subprogram within DARPA’s Tailorable Feedstock and Forming (TFF) program compiled analytical data from current/past production as well as empirical data from its own forming trials for ...