[HN Gopher] The Robot Sculptors of Italy
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       The Robot Sculptors of Italy
        
       Author : helsinkiandrew
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2025-07-10 05:39 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
        
       | helsinkiandrew wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/20250709144747/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | Also https://www.monumentallabs.co/ in the US
        
         | ludicrousdispla wrote:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33940043
        
         | diamondage wrote:
         | Didn't they get their robots from Italy?
        
       | satvikpendem wrote:
       | There are lots of videos online of this, pretty cool to see, and
       | also lots of artists apparently complaining why they don't use
       | humans, not understanding that every piece is hand finished, so
       | they are hiring more artists than ever before.
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       | Also, the article is talking about Sai Baba but the images are of
       | Sathya Sai Baba, they are two different people who lived a
       | century apart.
        
         | ludicrousdispla wrote:
         | This opens up a lot more possibilities for artists than it
         | takes away.
        
           | beeflet wrote:
           | until they invent an automatic finishing machine...
        
           | ljlolel wrote:
           | They have fewer sculptors than ever it says
        
       | leoc wrote:
       | James Watt of steam-engine fame was one of the first people to
       | try to mechanically reproduce statues:
       | https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/sj.20...
        
       | gerikson wrote:
       | Heh! I recognized the robots as being originally made by Kuka,
       | because those were the ones used at my last job.
        
       | 1024core wrote:
       | The writer seems to have gotten his "Sai Baba"s mixed up. The
       | statue seems to be of the more modern one ( Sathya Sai Baba,
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sathya_Sai_Baba ) who passed away
       | in 2011, and not the OG Shirdi Sai Baba:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Baba_of_Shirdi
        
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