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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.

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).

What Happens When You Turn Artists Loose On Autodesk’s 3-D Printers

As one of Autodesk’s artists in residence, Rachel McConnell had free reign to work on whatever her heart desired. What did the heart want? A rad toy. A look at what really goes into 3-D printing.

Explore The Smithsonian’s Best Exhibits In 3-D–From Your Couch

The world’s largest museum is making its most special artifacts available in a way never seen before.

What Will It Take To Actually Build The Hyperloop?

These technical renderings bring the high-speed transportation project one tiny step closer to reality.

Facebook, Pandora, Flickr, Autodesk Go Head To Head In Lego’s Robot Building Competition

Facebook built a robot. Don’t worry, this story isn’t as scary as it sounds.

A New Startup Accelerator Helps Hardware Companies Prepare For Success

Bolt, based in Boston, gives fledgling startups the expertise and equipment to go beyond software and create successful products–ranging from weather stations to custom prosthetics–that could change the world.

The Public Interest Design 100: Designers Changing The World

The second installment of this annual list features global designers using their craft to improve lives–from building floating schools to learning about city design from slums.

MIT’s New Self-Assembly Lab Is Building A Paradigm Shift To 4-D Manufacturing

What if your Ikea desk could assemble itself? If Skylar Tibbits has his way, parts will someday put themselves together, better than you ever could.

A Tool To Quantify All The Data Streaming From NASA’s Space Station On Earth

NASA’s Sustainability Base is one of the smartest buildings on Earth, but what do you do with the information it–or other smart buildings–generate? Autodesk’s Project Dasher is finding ways to visualize and put to use everything we find out about our own energy use.

A 3-D Printer Will Soon Print You New Organs

Design software company Autodesk has teamed up with bioprinting company Organovo to try to deliver us the future of personalized medicine: new organs that can be printed up just for you.

Designing For More Than Just Looks: Inside Public Interest Design

Autodesk Buys Socialcam For $60 Million

Sustainable Innovation Stems From Individuals, Not A Group

Brainstorming with colleagues is great, but sometimes the best way to think of a world-changing idea is to disappear into your own thoughts.

The 6 Questions That Lead To New Innovations

Autodesk’s Innovation Genome Project tried to quantify what worked about the 1,000 greatest innovations of all time. With that data in hand, the company then turned to what needs innovation today: building with sustainable materials.

Helping Intrapreneurs Break Free Of The Sustainability “Ghetto”

Too often, innovative thinkers at large companies are written off when their ideas involve making the company cleaner or more efficient. A program from the Aspen Institute is helping empower these intrapreneurs to effect change in their companies.

At TED, It’s All About the Touchable

Autodesk: The Secret Star Behind Oscar-Winning Visual Effects

How Funky Pi Mobility Bikes Tamed Quirky Curves With 3-D Software