Carrara, the Italian city famous for some of the world’s finest marbles, has given birth to the masterpieces of Renaissance masters, such as Michelangelo ... sculpture. Human vs robot: who ...

In the birthplace of Italian sculpture, a powerful automated machine tries its hand at an ancient craft ... the vitality and sheen of the human form. Michelangelo cultivated relationships with ...

A robotic hand can pick up 24 different ... between an object and a human hand," says Junge, a PhD student in the School of Engineering's Computational Robot Design & Fabrication (CREATE) Lab ...

Only human touch can coax the divine out of a stone, Monfroni said, adding that Michelangelo would never lower himself to using a robot ... that are possible when hand cutting.

(The researchers used MRI data from a real human hand to model its construction.) In addition to the hand, they also printed a robotic heart, a six-legged robot, and a metamaterial capable of ...