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Why this coffee shop turned its baristas into construction workers during COVID-19

Compass Coffee’s business plummeted at the start of the pandemic. Rather than lay everyone off, the company turned its baristas into construction workers.

Inside the Autodesk labs testing the future of construction, from drones to holograms

Autodesk has created a residency program for companies using new technology to solve problems in design and construction. Cue the flying robots.

This incredible bridge was designed by students—and built by robots

The bridge is made of 18,000 pounds of steel, and created only 1,000 pounds of waste material—all of which was recycled.

The future of transportation is here. See the top mobility designs of 2019

See all the honorees of the 2019 Innovation by Design Awards in the Mobility category.

This new “Rapid Response Factory” wants to make an assembly line to build post-disaster housing

Prefab apartment builder FactoryOS is teaming up with Autodesk to streamline a process to get housing to people in need as quickly as possible after fires, floods, and earthquakes.

76 major companies are in D.C. today asking Congress for a price on carbon

From PepsiCo to Nike to even Royal Dutch Shell, this consortium says they want the government to start regulating emissions.

This is the first commercial chair made using generative design

Philippe Starck collaborated with an algorithm to design this chair, which will go on sale soon.

This is the most complex generative design ever made

Autodesk worked with NASA to create a space lander prototype that can withstand the temperatures and pressures of outer space.

Here’s how NASA plans to build on other planets

It’s going to take a lot of robots and a lot of rocks.

Autodesk’s Lego model-building robot is the future of manufacturing

The software giant’s BrickBot project shows how robots can learn to autonomously do complex tasks. For now it’s with Legos. The next step is in factories.

GM And Autodesk Develop 3D-Printed Car Parts

It all starts with a very unglamorous car part.

Autodesk Is Reducing Its Workforce By Over 1,000 People

The software company is also moving toward a subscription model for its services.

Are you ready for bots to read your face?

Would you turn on your webcam so that a customer service robot can get to know you better? Soul Machines, a New Zealand startup, thinks so. It builds a customer service bot with an amazingly human face and a simulated nervous system that interprets how customers feel and reacts accordingly—in part by watching them over a … Continue reading “Are you ready for bots to read your face?”

This Chatbot Is Trying Hard To Look And Feel Like Us

Modeled on a real person and equipped with a virtual “nervous system,” Autodesk’s AVA is built to be a font of empathy, no matter how mean a customer gets.

How Machine Learning Will Unlock The Future Of 3D Printing

9 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Design, According To Ideo, Microsoft, Autodesk, MIT, And More

Autodesk’s Plan To Change The Way Movies Are Made

VR. AR. TV. Phones. Movie theaters. Autodesk’s new skunkworks lab wants to transcend them all.

Trump Says The Paris Agreement Is Bad For Business, Business Says Nope

Trump’s rhetoric on the Paris Agreement has inspired a new level of climate action from CEOs (though their climate positions aren’t as pure as they’d like you to think).

These 12 Graphs Show Why Data Viz Is So Important

If you’ve ever doubted that visualization matters to data analysis, you need to see these images.