{"id":2541,"date":"2018-03-23T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T19:32:27","slug":"what-we-like-this-week-032318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/what-we-like-this-week-032318\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Like This Week: Soaring Statues &amp; Snakeskin Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a>by Mouncey Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>Industrial automation is on the move, robots are finding new ways to\u00a0get around,\u00a0and CG is popping up where you least expect it. Check out our picks for the week:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2547\" style=\"width: 1077px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2547\" class=\"wp-image-2547 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1067\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1.png 1434w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1-768x295.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1-1024x393.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Michael Graves Architecture &amp; Design<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Go big or go home.\u00a0<\/strong>When it\u2019s completed in late 2018, India\u2019s Statue of Unity (pictured above) will be nearly twice the size of the Statue of Liberty, not to mention\u00a0the tallest statue in the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/890840\/construction-of-the-tallest-statue-in-the-world-continues-in-india\">ArchDaily has a construction report<\/a> with a gorgeous\u00a0animated rendering\u00a0of the project\u2019s\u00a0past and future progress.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automation\u00a0goes global.\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0McKinsey Global Institute hosted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/global-themes\/future-of-organizations-and-work\/how-will-automation-affect-economies-around-the-world?cid=podcast-eml-alt-mgi-mgi-oth-1803&amp;hlkid=c262ceba88674301a1f3c729a9ce1a1a&amp;hctky=2576061&amp;hdpid=1617887b-ee0a-4cf2-8f75-d9bc57af76c3\">a juicy\u00a0podcast<\/a> about how automation and AI will affect the economies of China, Europe, and India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u201cEvery decade, we create 10 percent of jobs that you haven\u2019t heard of before. Think about the day we started all using Google and search, and search-marketing jobs were invented. Now we\u00a0have\u00a0also invented cloud engineers. These jobs are\u00a0something you couldn\u2019t imagine would exist 20 to 30 years ago.\u201d\u00a0\u2013 Jacques\u00a0<\/em><em>Bughin<\/em><em>, The McKinsey Global Institute\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New era, new skills.\u00a0<\/strong>Who\u2019s going to do all these new jobs? The people\u00a0who know how. Learn how Autodesk is working with the support of the Indian government to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/small-biz\/startups\/newsbuzz\/autodesk-spearheads-drive-to-reskill-workforce-in-the-age-of-automation\/articleshow\/63228855.cms\">reskill Indian workers for the new age of automation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beyond optimization.\u00a0<\/strong>Autodesk\u2019s\u00a0own Ravi\u00a0Akella\u00a0explains\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/technology-and-iiot\/what-generative-design-and-why-its-future-manufacturing\">the basics\u00a0of\u00a0generative design<\/a> in\u00a0IndustryWeek\u2014what\u00a0it is, how it works,\u00a0and what it means for your industry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dramatic effects.\u00a0<\/strong>You may find more CG in dramas like \u201cI, Tonya\u201d and \u201cThe Wolf of Wall Street\u201d than in popcorn fare like \u201cThe Dark Knight\u201d or \u201cInterstellar.\u201d But unless you watch\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/video\/cgi-in-movies\">this video\u00a0from Digg.com<\/a>, you may never know it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The robots are coming.\u00a0<\/strong>Some are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/mit-robot-fish\/\">swimming like a fish<\/a>, using soft robotics. Others are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-slithering-snake-robot-20180222-story.html\">slithering like a snake<\/a>, using tricks learned from\u00a0kirigami, the Japanese\u00a0craft of paper cutting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Autonomous, self-contained soft robotic fish at MIT\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BSA_zb1ajes?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-23-at-12.00.01-PM-1.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a>by Mouncey Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>Industrial automation is on the move, robots are finding new ways to\u00a0get around,\u00a0and CG is popping up where you least expect it. Check out our picks for the week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go big or go home.\u00a0When it\u2019s completed in late 2018,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[636,363,637,447],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future-of-making-things","tag-automation","tag-generative-design","tag-media-entertainment","tag-robotics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What We Like This Week: Soaring Statues &amp; Snakeskin Robots - In the Fold<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Industrial automation is on the move, robots are finding new ways to get around, and CG is popping up where you least expect it.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/what-we-like-this-week-032318\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Autodesk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/what-we-like-this-week-032318\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/what-we-like-this-week-032318\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Autodesk\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.autodesk.com\\\/inthefold\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2fe6071949598957391b579ca67e73a9\"},\"headline\":\"What We Like This Week: Soaring Statues &amp; 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