A robot and algorithm developed by computer scientists at Israel's Ben-Gurion University will be used to reassemble 15,000 stones that were part of elaborate frescoes in Pompeii before being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.The work at Ben-Gurion spurred the creation of the international RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robots meet Cultural Heritage) project, comprised of computer scientists, roboticists, and archaeologists from Israel, Italy, Germany, and Portugal.
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