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"I'M WORKING WITH A ROBOT TO RECONSTRUCT POMPEII'S SHATTERED FRESCOES" Cultural and heritage researcher Arianna Traviglia uses robotic technology to painstakingly reconstruct 2,000-year-old mural paintings in the Archaeological Park. These are a type of mural painting on wet plaster. The project is called RePAIR. Pompeii contains thousands of fresco fragments, and it is close to impossible for a human to reconstruct all the irregular shards into big, meaningful paintings. Technology now allows us to reassemble them from myriad pieces: the robot we use is equipped with two soft humanoid arms, high-definition scanners, cameras and 3D digital-recognition software. I use a robot to restore Pompeii’s shattered frescoes | Nature