This ROBOT Can MAKE SHEET METAL BODY PANELS In Minutes out of ANY MATERIAL! SEMA 2024

Soooo... can somebody... ANYBODY... finally make a working replica of the Mach 5? I'm sure someone wants to be Speed Racer at Halloween... and WHAT A PROP!!! I bet you could sell a bunch of kit kars if there is any quality at all to the project.

Robots taking over the world.

i love this, i could think of a few uses for it. Replace your steel fenders with aluminum once for instance,

I just watched a video about professional sculptures using the same robots.

Very cool and even better in a few years when it gets better.

Amazing but.. limited to small run low production vehicles... 8n an industry where composite materials is growing by the day.
See , in large scale industrial situations you cannot beat stamping and robotic welding for speed and cost. Manufacturing engineers spend every second of every day trying to reduce costs and increase production speed and a system like this in a large plant would make them have nightmares.

It's too expensive for a small fab shop who can knock out small runs quickly with hammer forms and talent. So who does this system best work for, based on cost, talent, flexibility, and time? Basically high tech prototype shops, or very limited run shops with limited fab capabilities.

So how far away are we from sending a file to a company and having them make some flared fenders and quarter panels?

This young lady is amazing, no machine will match her work
Stout Metal Craft , this machine will cost $$$$$ and will obsolete within years

The Figur G15 costs about 1 million dollars with tooling. Not exactly for the home hobbyist, but a company like Send Cut Send could probably utilize these machines to enhance their current products. For the home hobbyist, a 4 X 8 cnc router table can produce the same shapes as wood molds for making fiberglass or carbon fiber parts.

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This process does not take minutes…..

I knew the day would come.

Oh I want one I have so many good designs in my mind

There is a process with a male and female mold with the composite between the two that squeezes the resin out between them to get just enough resin to cover the fibers which is as light as that part can be made. This would be perfect for that.

The downside i see to this is that the edges will always be flat, so the metal needs to be stretched way more then if it was done by hand, losing rigidity

Ya you’re right Dave it’s a faster way of doing it and how amazing they’ve come up with that kind of technology is awesome! Just the labor alone will save on time not your back ,arms ,legs and snorting in them there metals lol ! But at the end of it all you will still have to sand those check marks in the end witch is cool 😎 👍🏻😎🇺🇸🦅

Great video! I’m new to metal fabrication! I would love to get parts from this new technology!

I guess the sheet metal workers will be out of a job soon, that includes the Nascar guys.

But there's a guy in Pakistan that can do exactly the same with a hammer and a brick.

When robots start building robots … we’re f’ed.

In "minuets"? A minuet is a social dance for two people that originated in France and was popular in European ballrooms from 1650 to 1750. It is also the name of the piece of music that accompanies the dance. Seems odd for SEMA. Cool tech though!

but if a well payed man do that work with a hammer....he punch his personality and soul with every hit in that part ;) ........that cant do a robot arm

Out of any material you say, wow I'd love to see panels made with water, that'll be amazing.

Thank you at the end of the day.

"In minutes" ?????
Bull Shit !

This has been around for over 10 years !
It takes DAYS
to form 1 basic panel !!!
&
Its FULL of "ripples" !
Only a MAGA Moron would believe this in "the Future" !
🤣🤣🤣🤣

Stout metalcraft, sheet metal artistry at its finest!

Press tools are for high volume parts, they run a sheet thru 'stages' to achieve the finished panel. This technology is more suited to low volume or one offs, has come a long way! Coach building is a craft which cant be lost altogether & could work in conjunction with this?

Com os governos proibindo combustão e seu uso isto vai desmotivar demasiadamente a reparação e certos setores automotivos ficando demasiadamente caro se for feito sob plataformas eletricas.

Sadly just a Service it seems. No machine for sale to consumers, so not interesting to even concidder as a diy person.

A million-dollar price tag?

Ok looks great but how much does it cost?

Does it run on Solid Works?

Can panels be copyrighted?

At the end of the day, at the end of the day, at the end of the day at the end of the day. Ugh.....

That machine is the mother of panel shaping, you see ma at sema.

Eventually, your cheap humanoid robot will press and bend sheets accordingly in a fast way, while telling you to wait a few weeks till it build you a proper spaceship or its free, and it will be free at that point already.

This is a great technique to form any sheet metal parts, not only in automotive industry. As a mechanical engineer this gives me more freedom when i design parts. The costs will make the difference. Nice video!

Hand formed bodies are shrunk to size/shape not stretched, the body work gets thicker not thinner. Not that it matters but this is similar to deep drawing an aluminum can. I was fabricating replica AC Cobras and Ferrari GTOs of the same era 35 years ago and they were better than the originals. No lead or bondo and a couple were polished to a mirror finish. It's definitely an art.

Yes,I’ve been following this, and I think it’s fantastic! I think the Figur machine give better results than the two finger methods, unless they have improved it. And I think the Figur is faster. Cutting should not be a problem, because you can have it trace a groove with a sharp stylus where you cut it out. Supposedly it’s fairly economical. Certainly less than making hydraulic die press. I think manual sheet metal working is still necessary to bring pieces together, tweak things and both small pieces and very large pieces.

Not as strong as stamp in a piece with a die it's not even comparable

This isn't a tool for the craftsman, it is a tool for the manufacturer. It lets smaller companies make prefabs. But will be out of reach for the craftsman.

Metal spin forming has been a staple of formed sheet metal for decades.
Hydro-Forming and Press forming take flat static sheets and cause plastic deformation of the metal to retain it's new formed shape.
Translating that to CNC Pinch forming is just taking the plastic deformation process of stretching and forming of Metal to the next level.

I would take it to the next advancement using thermal pinch forming, by applying both Heating and Cooling to the process.
Heat to allow for more precise control of the plastic deformation and then rapid cooling to Lock in the shape.
I should Patent this technology. No One is doing it yet...

umm, they have this magic material called fiberglass that makes all this obsolete...again.

I'm stoked. I need rocker panels and quarter panels that have been discontinued and no longer available from the dealership.

How thin is the finished product ? That's a massive amount of stretching going on there ! Also cost. I imagine it won't be cheap.

CAD is not the best way to design esthetic shapes. Not at least until we have "feelovision". The artist can feel the clay. We learn and evolve to like shapes that feel good. I say this as a scientist who has been using computers intensively for over fifty years. And as the brother of a great engine mechanic. I have taken a lot of pottery classes.

Soon we will be all unemployed and become 🔋

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