Monumental Labs is building AI-enabled robotic stone carving factories. With them, we'll create cities with the splendor of Florence, Paris, or Art Deco New York, at a fraction of the cost.
Technology
Monumental Labs is building an AI-powered robotic fabrication platform that bridges the workshop traditions of fine arts with cutting-edge technology to make magnificent sculpture and stone architecture accessible at scale. Our team is developing software and hardware to progressively automate stone fabrication and reduce costs up to 90%.
Craft
We're reviving stone craftsmanship in America, hiring and training a new generation of craftsmen. The robots do the rough shaping, the humans create the designs and carve the fine details.
A World of Stone
By bending the cost curve on stone fabrication, we'll build highly ornamented structures on a mass scale, and create extraordinary new architectural forms.
Why Stone?
Stone is a wonder material—the most beautiful, durable, and sustainable building material on earth.
- It's beautiful. The buildings the world admires most are built of stone.
- It's durable. Stone buildings last not decades but millennia.
- It's inexhaustible. It lies beneath our feet nearly everywhere on the planet.
- It's truly green. Concrete is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions. Stone is made by nature—it only has to be taken out of the ground.
- It's strong. Reinforced with steel, stone reaches three times the compressive strength of reinforced concrete, with the flexural strength to carry buildings of 30 stories or more.
Only the cost of fabrication has held stone back.
With technology and craft, we can unleash a golden age of art and architecture. After decades of industrial efficiency overtaking aesthetic ambition, robots and AI will empower artists and architects to bring radical and beautiful new visions to life quickly and affordably.
After starting with a single robot and stone carver in July 2023, Monumental Labs has grown to a team of 26 designers, sculptors, fabricators, managers, and engineers. We're building a new workshop in New York City to house a dozen robots and dozens of artists and craftsmen.
With the infrastructure we’re bringing to market today, we will be able to build ornate classical structures on a mass scale, and to create extraordinary new architectural forms. We’re committed to reviving stone craft in America and the world by training a new generation of craftsmen and building a community of patrons and builders who value exceptional art and architecture.
