Robot Sculptors

Carving with pinpoint precision, and at least some of the artistic flair of its more celebrated (and human) predecessors, ABB2, a 4m, zinc-alloy robotic arm, extended its spinning wrist and diamond-coated finger toward a gleaming piece of white marble. “Artists want to perpetuate this idea that they are still chiseling with a hammer,. It makes me laugh.”

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