WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) — Researchers from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, have combined efforts with The Ohio State University, or OSU, and industry partners CapSen Robotics and Yaskawa Motoman to successfully demonstrate an autonomous robotic incremental metal forming prototype at the Warner-Robins Air Logistics Complex, or WR-ALC, a tenant of Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, in late January 2023. The artificially intelligent system, nicknamed AI-FORGE, was funded primarily by the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute and promises to not only improve aircraft readiness for the U.S. Department of the Air Force but also to significantly impact the future of metamorphic manufacturing, also called robotic blacksmithing.
Source: https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2003214243/
May 16, 2023 | Originally published by Air Force Research Laboratory on May 3, 2023