ROBOFORMING: The Future of Metalworking? (I Had NO IDEA This Was Possible) - Smarter Every Day 290
Added 2023-09-16 16:45:02 +0000 UTCHey there fellow learner! I had never even heard of "Roboforming" until I received a message after the metal stamping video. It's actually a process called "Incremental Sheet Forming", and it's incredible! I think you'll like this video. I've also gone into much more detail on the second channel if you'd like to check that one out!
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Behind the Scenes Second Channel Video:
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Comments
You said you'd tolerate sketches. How about roboforming with a very extreme perspective? That way the foreground shows the tool pressing (with tons of pressure!) and the background lets the viewer know this is the tip of a robot arm. (How do I get the sketch to you?)
Paul Black
2023-10-04 16:50:11 +0000 UTCAwesome video! Shared it around my company (~170 engineers with 15 yrs of engineering experience on average), we specialize in product development, only 1 of our most senior engineers had ever seen this tech, and it was not this refined, 10 years ago. We have a couple of old projects this would have been beneficial on, and hope to find a way to use them one day!
Nasi Feles
2023-10-01 06:19:35 +0000 UTCP.S. 6) What are these "pans" that you can attach underneath? Are they used instead of blades or in addition? Why would you choose to use pans or just blades?
Lars Huttar
2023-09-22 14:04:59 +0000 UTCPretty interesting stuff! Besides the technology itself, we have some Persian friends and it was cool to see Persians in the US pushing the envelope on roboforming. On a different topic, I ran across (at our church building project) this machine called a ride-on power trowel. They look a bit like zero-turn riding mowers. No doubt other people know about them, but for me it was new. One thing I've learned from Destin is to be encouraged to ask workers, who know far more about what they're doing than I do, to tell me about their craft and their machines. When you treat them with respect and genuine curiosity, they're often happy to share a bit of their hard-earned knowledge. So apparently it's like a mower but instead of cutting blades going around underneath, you've got trowels for smoothing concrete. People keep saying the power trowel rides like a hovercraft! Well, it doesn't lift off the ground, but it does seem to steer sort of like a hovercraft, turning and drifting sideways unlike a wheeled vehicle (it doesn't have wheels!). It looks like it would be difficult to control, but the operators I saw moved the machine along the edge of cement and around coworkers with a surprising amount of precision. I did some online searching and came up with some info but also several unanswered questions. Would love to see Destin look into this and make a video! My questions: 1) How does the steering and movement work? There are two "joysticks". One video just said that you push the right stick forward and the right side goes forward. Like I suppose a skid steer operates. But then I also saw a power trowel where each joystick could be pushed in at least four directions. Does the operator really have that many degrees of freedom to control each side? 2) How does that control get translated into actually steering/moving the power trowel in the desired direction? Does each "fan" (as opposed to the individual blades) get tilted? 3) There are hand cranks to change the pitch of the blades... like on a helicopter! Why? What difference does it make, and under what conditions should you use a shallow or a steep pitch? 4) Power trowels have buttons to spray retardant. What's the purpose of that? What does it retard? 5) Where can I get a 5-minute ride on one and how much does it cost? 🤣 Anyway ... I'm sure there are a million cool things to investigate in regard to construction equipment... like laser screeds... but this was one that caught my attention and made me think, Destin would do a good job with that!
Lars Huttar
2023-09-22 14:02:34 +0000 UTCThis video is on par with the submarine series, the previous progressive molding video, the Apollo video, and the Social Media series. Between this and last weeks NDQ episode, I think we’re the recipients of a new peak in the content you give us. I know I can get both of those for free, but if my $10 or whatever I send helps make videos like this or podcasts like that happen, it’s well worth it.
steven statzer
2023-09-20 04:07:52 +0000 UTCDestin, you get such great access to some of these companies and find out some VERY proprietary information...we need an Investment section in Patreon with company info, how to invest, trading tickers, etc. Just finished the long version of this video and it sounds like an amazing company with some long term uses that would make for a perfect investment opportunity. 😀
Jay Mweller
2023-09-18 20:02:00 +0000 UTCThis episode was just awesome! Amazing how technology is advancing. Where will we be 5, 10, 20 years from now? I was born too early!!! I envy my grandchildren. By getting smarter every day, I realize how dumb I still am. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. I love your channels.
BERNARDO DIAZ
2023-09-18 16:37:59 +0000 UTCDestin, This video was the one that convinced me to become a patron :-) I've been watching your videos off and on over the years and I was just over the top impressed with this -- it feels like the culmination of a maturation of style that has been coming for a very long time. The way you describe the things you see in this video strikes an incredible balance between being precise and being accessible. I have to imagine there's quite a temptation when making mass-audience videos to dumb things down by saying "end effector thingy", or to choose a different almost-but-not-quite-synonym each time, or similar. I have to imagine there's a temptation to avoid terms of art, or to use them in passing but not use them as the primary way you describe things. The thing I realize as I was thinking about this was that, by *not* doing these, you show an enormous amount of respect for your audience. YouTube tells me you're #10 trending right now, so as far as I can tell, that is something that your audience seems to appreciate! I certainly do, and the respect that you show me in this video translates to a new level of respect for you that I am overwhelmingly glad to have. Thanks so much for making this, and for the style you did it in. I can't wait to see more. joshua
Joshua Wise
2023-09-18 08:14:02 +0000 UTCI've been loving your focus on domestic manufacturing here in the US. It's so easy to imagine that everything interesting is being made in China, and it's nice to see really interesting processes being done locally.
Strawberry Puptart
2023-09-17 01:23:13 +0000 UTCThank you for this, Destin! I'm really enjoying the manufacturing series.
MikeW
2023-09-17 00:14:40 +0000 UTCThis is freaking awesome!!! I particularly like the sections where you cut to your studio to explain again what was said previously. Sometimes, hesring something multiple times but phrased slightly differently really helps in understanding some concepts
Jonas Wahlen
2023-09-16 23:44:14 +0000 UTCWatching now! 🙌🏻
Marc Selman
2023-09-16 20:51:48 +0000 UTCVery cool....
Mrgunsngear
2023-09-16 19:32:51 +0000 UTCSo cool. Thanks for these.
ruralbob
2023-09-16 18:22:28 +0000 UTCDreaming of some cross collaboration with Colin Furze on forming spheres!!!
C. David Buchanan
2023-09-16 16:50:26 +0000 UTC
