A reproduction of Canova’s “Amore e Psiche” by hand takes 132 days and €90,000 in labour, while a robot-assisted version finished in 77 days for just €64,000.

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The basic software costs $5,000 per year, encoding toolpath carving instructions that might be executed by a $200,000 sculpting robot that is actually a reassembled version of the standard $70,000 basic robot you might find on the assembly line.