Google Art Camera uses robotic system to take gigapixel photos of museum paintings

The Google Cultural Institute, an online virtual museum with high-quality digitizations of artifacts from across the globe, recently added more than 1,000 ultra-high-resolution images of classic paintings and other artwork by Monet, Van Gogh and many others. A new robotic camera system Google has developed called 'Art Camera' has made it possible for the organization to add digitizations faster than ever before. Previously, Google's collection included only about 200 digitizations, accumulated o...