Instead making complicated folds in sheet metal to give it strength, two architects simply inflate the space between sheet metal shapes. Thanks to a new welding robot in a new workshop, they can ...

A piece of sheet metal (aluminum or titanium approximately 3mm thick) is clamped on all four sides while two robot arms, one underneath, one above, move a roundhead stylus across the sheet metal ...

New class of ceramics can be thermoformed into shape like sheet metal. Scientists have demonstrated a new class of materials they call thermoformable ceramics. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University.

Once worked in the sheet metal business (15 years). Forming over a large area and doing it quickly with accuracy requires tonnage. Minster machines do a good job of it but the dies are $$$$$$$.