Source: The Times of India, New Delhi, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 WATCH OUT MASONS Robots that can lay six times as many bricks a day as human builders are set to tun the construction industry on its head. New York based firm Construction Robotics has developed a robot called SAM (short for Semi-Automated Mason), which can lay 3,000 bricks a day. That's significantly more than most human builders, who can lay an average of 500 bricks a day. The devices have started replacing humans on a some sites in US. "We are going over to the UK in the coming months to meet with some companies and see if we can find a home for Sam there," Scott Peters, the company's president, told The Times.While SAM has the ability to pick up bricks, apply mortar and lay them, the robot needs to be heavily supervised. Human workers still need to set up the robot, supervise health and safety and assist with laying bricks a...
Source: The Times of India, New Delhi, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Rod Nordland When the head of a small Italian museum called Detective Inspector Alexander Horn of the Munich Police, she asked him if he investigated cold cases. "Yes I do," Inspector Horm said, recalling their conversation. "Well, I have the coldest case of all for you," said Anglika Fleckinger, director of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, in Bolzano, Italy. The victim, nicknamed Otzi, has been in cold storage in her museum for a quarter-century. Often called the Iceman, he is the world's most perfectly preserved mummy, a Copper Age fellow who had been frozen inside a glacier along the northern Italian border with Austria until two hikers discovered him in 1991. The cause of death remained uncertain until 10 years later, when an X-ray of the mummy pointed to foul play in the form of a flint arrowhead embedded in his back, just under his shoulder. The glacier not on...