“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. But hot-wire cutters ...

The product is named FOIM—a combination of the words "foil" and "foam." The novel material is a shape memory polymer. It is capable of returning to its original shape after being deformed.

The shape is then smoothed using glass-paper ... This short film explains the process of block foam modelling, which is used to create prototypes of products in the design phase and allows ...