MIT engineering team creates carpentry robots

MIT’s engineering team has created small robotic carpenters to help you bring any custom furniture design to life.

To minimize injury and allow woodworkers to focus on design and other more challenging tasks, a team of researchers from MIT Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed AutoSaw, a robotic system that is designed to cut custom-designed furniture and is so easy to use. that even a person without special skills can manage it.

You just need to order suitable materials from a workshop or a hardware store, select the models you like in a computer catalog, set the required dimensions – and start the robots. “Furniture makers should think about beauty and ergonomics without fear of losing their fingers when making complex parts,” the scientists say.

AutoSaw software has templates for making tables, chairs, and other furniture, but smaller robots can also be used for larger joinery and carpentry jobs, including building a deck or porch.

Robot carpenters can become an indispensable assistant in the manufacture of furniture for small apartments or for rooms with complex configurations: the products presented in stores sometimes do not fit in size or shape, and AutoSaw will help you to make comfortable folding furniture with filigree precision.

Professional carpenters carry out large-sized cutting on automated lines, but when working on small parts they use jigsaws and other hand tools that are understandable and familiar to use, but potentially traumatic. By entrusting these tasks to the AutoSaw robots, they will be able to customize various sizes and aesthetic characteristics of future products.

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Source: ecotechnica.com.ua