Giacomo Massari, founder of Robotor, says his machine is “99 percent self-explanatory.” However, according to him, the human touch is still very important and that one percent is very important.

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Dubbed “1L”, the robot sculptor is about four feet tall and is made of zinc alloy. The cutting surfaces are coated with synthetic diamond powder to machine hard materials. The power of the device allows you to hold a marble slab and carefully separate it, independently without a break for rest and weekends, performing the “work of the army of Renaissance sculptors.” It used to take hundreds of hours, now it takes days.

In a demonstration of 1L’s work for CBS News reporters, engineers demonstrated the creation of a Venus statue.

I think it will take about four days,
Massari told CBS News.

The process of creating the statue of Venus / Photo by CBS News

The company claims that technology is nothing but a revolution in the creation of timeless art.

We are now entering a new era of sculpture, not of broken stones, chisels and dust, but of hatching, point clouds and design.
– Adds Giacomo Massari.

In a sense, it is “photoshop for sculpture” that allows you to achieve great accuracy. If something goes wrong and you don’t like the design of the sculpture, you can go back to the design phase and fix it on the 3D model. This saves a lot of material, produces less waste.