Robotics meets natural history: How skulls become 3D models - Museum Evolution

Dinosaur and antelope skulls, flies and ants, expedition diaries and historical photos: the treasures in our collection of 30 million objects are as diverse as nature itself! There is not a single easy way to develop them all and make them available to the world digitally. Technologies are also used that were not actually made for the digitization of natural history collections. An example is the CultArm3D.
The robot arm was developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Graphic Data Processing (Fraunhofer IGD). It is able to fully automatically digitize the geometry and texture of 3D objects on a turntable! Originally tested and developed using human-made sculptures and artefacts, it can contribute to making our collection more accessible and to new uses.
A film team accompanies the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin on its way into the future. On CZcams you can join our Museum Evolution!
The earth is changing. Every second. For 4.56 billion years. But this change is happening too fast lately! This is shown by the speed of species extinction and climate change.
We are making the museum fit for new challenges, also structurally. As a place where, in future, a million visitors a year will be able to engage in an exchange about the preservation of our natural foundations of life. And as a place where more than 200 scientists are already researching life and the earth. We are catapulting the 30 million objects in our collection into the future - analogue and digital. For all of us! So that we can work together on solutions - for nature and the cohesion of society.
In cooperation with Hans Otto Film
With music by Dominik Eulberg
Thumbnail: Fraunhofer IGD, Hans-Joachim Brucherseifer

[@praehist3D]

Sehr schöner Scanaufbau. Mir gefällt vor allem die Kreuzpolarisierung. Verwenden Sie ein weiteres Scanverfahren mit absoluten Maßen zur absoluten Skalierung oder kann der Roboterarm über eine Nachvervolgung seiner Positionen während des Scans die absoluten Maße selbst ermitteln?

[@germaniainferior2648]

Old technique cennected to a robot arm 😄. PeP is the Future 😝

[@germaniainferior2648]

But great work 👏👏👏