Machines Italia teamed up with Daily Planet, the flagship science magazine produced and distributed by Discovery Channel Canada, to film a series of segments on exciting scientific and technological innovations by Italian companies.

The Daily Planet crew was in central Italy at the beginning of May 2016 and stopped in Livorno, Carrara, Bologna and Modena, where they shot stories on compelling technologies such as stone and marble extraction and processing, soft robotics, sports motorcycles and exotic sports cars.

The first four segments aired between the end of May and December, 2016, within four different episodes of Daily Planet and they featured:

• Robosoft Grand Challenge and the Soft Robotics Week 2016, hosted  by BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Livorno
• The road test of the new Ducati XDiavel motorcycle
• Pagani Automobili’s Huayra super sports car
• Tor Art  the  Carrara based  stone machining shop specialized in  3D scanning and processing which is rebuilding parts of the Palmyra temple of Bel in Syria destroyed by ISIL.

 Machines Italia provided financial and logistics support and assisted with the scouting of the subject matters, companies and locations for the segments.
 For further information on this initiative, please contact toronto [at] machinesitalia.org (subject: Machines%20Italia%20E-newsletter)