Italy’s Master Masons Keep the Art, Robots Take the Dust
Robots are transforming the most punishing stage of Italy’s stone-carving tradition. In historic quarries and workshops, automated systems handle as much as 99% of heavy rough-cutting, shifting workers away from the stone dust linked to silicosis, an incurable lung disease. Would you expect an ancient art like stone-carving to be saved by modern robots? As … Read more