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CARRARA, Italy \u2014 For centuries, the massive marble quarries above the Tuscan town of Carrara have yielded the raw material for the polished masterpieces of Italian sculptors like Michelangelo, Canova, Bernini and, most recently, ABB2.<\/p>\n
Carving with pinpoint precision, and at least some of the artistic flair of its more celebrated (and human) predecessors, ABB2, a 13-foot, zinc-alloy robotic arm, extended its spinning wrist and diamond-coated finger toward a gleaming piece of white marble….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
*An interesting local robotics angle in the New York Times article here. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/11\/world\/europe\/carrara-italy-robot-sculptures.html By Emma Bubola July 11, 2021 CARRARA, Italy \u2014 For centuries, the massive marble quarries above the Tuscan town of Carrara have yielded the raw material for the polished masterpieces of Italian sculptors like Michelangelo, Canova, Bernini and, most recently, ABB2. Carving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n
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