Molinari, Jean-FrançoisPham-Ba, Son2022-06-012022-06-012022-06-012022https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/188216The invention relates to a material removing tool, such as an ice cream scoop, and method for designing the same. The material removing tool has a shape optimized to minimize the amount of work the user has to provide in order to form and remove a piece of a material of choice. The optimization was done using an evolutionary algorithm called particle swarm optimization.patentWO2022101325WO202210132578592871