roboFold
Robofold – production process
Posted in featured, projects, roboFold on 2 July 2008
AltN research has been working with roboFold to develop a new method of sheet metal forming which does not require any forms or tooling. In this method, material is simply scored on curved fold-paths and bent into form using 6axis robots. One of the advantages of this method is that different parts can [...]
Folding Test
Posted in featured, roboFold on 28 May 2008
1st test to generate the robot code. The surface was generated from scan data @ TU Vienna
Simulation
Posted in dev, featured, roboFold on 20 May 2008
Posted in dev, featured, roboFold on 20 May 2008
This animation shows the first test shape for roboFold.
The robots attach there hands at the specified point and then the surface determines the rotations of the 6 axes on the robots. This simulation also writes the actual code which drives the positions of each of the servos.