“A journalist and photographer from the newspaper accompanied the ‘Indiana Jones-style’ expedition, led by a French-born archaeologist, through landmine-strewn jungle in the Siem Reap region where Angkor Wat, the largest Hindi temple complex in the world, is located.  The expedition used an instrument called Lidar — light detection and ranging data — which was strapped to a helicopter that criss-crossed a mountain north of Angkor Wat for seven days. It effectively peeled away the jungle canopy using billions of laser pulses, allowing archaeologists to see structures that were in perfect squares, completing a map of the city which years of painstaking ground research had been unable to achieve.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/15/archaeologists-use-revolutionary-laser-technology-to-find-lost-medieval-city-in-cambodia/

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“The machine itself consists of multiple engines and a mechanical arm which is attached to a brush. Its hard drive has been imbued with the skills of 90-year-old Juho Sado, a master calligrapher who taught the robot how to write a series of ‘Kanji’ characters down to the most imperceptible of wrist movements and brush strokes. ‘When you take the brush, it’s as if the master himself is holding your hand and guiding you,’ said Ayaka Matsui, an assistant of Professor Katsura who teaches children how to use the robot during introductory workshops at the university.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/01/robot-turning-japanese-children-into-calligraphers/

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