{"id":2975,"date":"2018-01-19T14:51:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autodesk-news.torpedo.agency\/?post_type=picks&#038;p=2975"},"modified":"2019-08-27T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:51:22","slug":"like-week-natural-robots-new-approaches-work","status":"publish","type":"views","link":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/views\/like-week-natural-robots-new-approaches-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Like This Week: \u201cNatural\u201d Robots and New Approaches to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New ways for robotic muscles to work? New ways for a workshop to work? Here are some stories that caught our attention this week.\u00a0\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>BUILD<\/b><b> it and they will come<\/b><b>.<\/b> Ideas come in, companies come out. See what\u2019s happening in the Autodesk workshop and incubator <a href=\"http:\/\/wbur.fm\/2DOJLOt\">on the edge of the Massachusetts Bay<\/a> in this piece from NPR\u2019s Boston affiliate. Or check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architectmagazine.com\/practice\/the-800-pound-gorilla-autodesk-sees-a-digital-future-for-architecture-firsthand_o\">Architect Magazine<\/a>\u2019s take on the \u2018BUILD Space\u2019.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>Smooth moves<\/b><b>. <\/b>Often, the hardest thing for robots to do is be gentle. A team of researchers is pioneering soft actuators that mimic the \u201cnatural\u201d movements of our muscles and may one day enable robots to handle the most delicate of tasks. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-clever-new-robotic-muscle-seriously-lifts-bro\/\">WIRED\u2019s <\/a>coverage or go <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6371\/61\">straight to the source<\/a> in Science.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>Get your <\/b><b>mind<\/b><b> right.<\/b> The rise of robotics and AI pose very real concerns for the fate of many jobs.\u00a0 We like this fresh, pragmatic perspective\u2014not overly optimistic or excessively dire\u2014on the skills you\u2019ll need to thrive in the automated future <a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/we-arent-prepared-for-an-automated-future-34161bed1775\">from Hackernoon<\/a>.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b>Heavy metal<\/b><b>. <\/b>We\u2019re big believers in the potential for metal 3D printing. Apparently Warren Buffet is too. It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/redshift\/additive-manufacturing-technologies\/\">something we talk about<\/a> a lot.<b>\u00a0<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2018\/01\/08\/warren-buffett-invested-in-this-3-d-printing-trend.aspx\">Motley Fool<\/a> recently went deep on the topic from an investor perspective, laying out what\u2019s needed to make large-scale additive manufacturing with metal a reality. We\u2019d humbly add that you need the right software in addition to materials, machines and know-how to do it well.\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &nbsp; <div id=\"attachment_3696\" style=\"width: 1035px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3696\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3696\" src=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1220_autodesk06-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1025\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1220_autodesk06-1.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1220_autodesk06-1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/app\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1220_autodesk06-1-1024x628.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julian Bell of Mediate Matter at the MIT Media Lab, demonstrates the robotic arm of the Digital Construction Platform which one day could build build foam structures on the moon, Mars and beyond. (Jesse Costa\/WBUR)<\/p><\/div> Credit Jesse Cosa\/WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New ways for robotic muscles to work? New ways for a workshop to work? Here are some stories that caught our attention this week.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BUILD it and they will come. Ideas come in, companies come out. See what\u2019s happening in the Autodesk workshop and incubator on the edge of the Massachusetts Bay in this piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"adsk_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","views","type-views","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What We Like This Week: \u201cNatural\u201d Robots and New Approaches to Work | Autodesk News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/views\/like-week-natural-robots-new-approaches-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What We Like This Week: \u201cNatural\u201d Robots and New Approaches to Work\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New ways for robotic muscles to work? 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