Alec Rivers talks about how he created the Shaper CNC router to
empower everyone to easily manufacture high precision parts. Host Per
Sjöborg, Robots in Depth #44 supported by https://carbon.ai &
http://www.aptomica.com
Alec is a co-founder of Shaper that develops a handheld and CNC
router. This combination has a number of significant benefits like low
cost, high precision and great flexibility.
He describes how they add fiducial marker tape to the work piece to
digitally augment it and accurately track the position of the router
bit while you move the router to roughly position it.
The Shaper router is truly a co-bot and a great example of people and
robots working together to active a result that neither humans nor
robots could by themselves.
The Shaper router can work on a big work piece that would require a
very expensive conventional CNC machine. At the same time, it achieves
a precision that humans alone cannot, by reading the fiducial marker
tape and automatically guiding the router bit from a vector file.
We also get to hear about the beginning of Alec’s start-up journey and
how it all began with a failed picture frame. That led to the insight
that together with a CNC machine he could have been more successful.
More information about Shaper at https://www.shapertools.com
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