Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "ROBOFORMING: The Future of Metalworking? (I Had NO IDEA This Was Possible) - Smarter Every Day 290" video.

  1. Great video! I'm a bit surprised that they use just ball point tools instead of small rollers that rotate according to the direction of the tool. I would expect small rollers pushing from opposite sides of metal to allow for higher quality resulting surface. I guess that has some other con-sides that I cannot guess right now, probably related to how metal actually behaves under high pressure.
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  2. 28:18 I think this is the most important thing to understand here: in case of complex metal structures it's already faster to manufacture and stress test the full part using this manufacturing method than do full 3D stress analysis on software on computer to figure out if the resulting part would be good enough for the designed purpose.
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