{"id":327,"date":"2015-08-19T19:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T19:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion360.wpengine.com\/autobots-transform-and-roll-out-optimus-prime-the-transformers-tv-series\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T18:12:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:12:20","slug":"autobots-transform-and-roll-out-optimus-prime-the-transformers-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/autobots-transform-and-roll-out-optimus-prime-the-transformers-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAutobots, transform and roll out!\u201d – Optimus Prime, The Transformers TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month you very probably saw the epic, unapologetically American challenge issued by Megabots<\/a> via YouTube to Japan-based Suidobashi Heavy Industries proposing the two companies have their two giant 15 ft robots fight. Suidobashi, who call their giant robot the \u201cKuratas,\u201d accepted<\/a>. Between them, their two challenge videos have been viewed almost 10 million times. And there have been over 1,100 news articles published.<\/p>\n

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“You grew up hoping that the giant robot battles of science fiction would become real, and we did too.<\/p>\n

That dream is one-year away.\u201d \u2013 Matt Oehrlein, Co-Founder of Megabots.<\/p>\n

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Now, the two companies just need to make their robots combat ready.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve been working with the MegaBots guys since the beginning and we\u2019re gonna make sure they haveall of the hardware and software they need to beat KURATAS!\u201d \u2013 Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s true. Autodesk is super serious about our love of Megabots. We\u2019ve been big fans since we first met Gui and crew working out of Artisan\u2019s Asylum in Boston. We hosted them at Autodesk University and used their cannon to fire t-shirts at our attendees.\u00a0 We partnered at Maker Faire San Francisco to delight attendees with the artistic paintball-induced destruction of a car. We\u2019ve given them access to our world-class Pier 9 manufacturing facility in San Francisco and given them our full suite of Autodesk software to create.<\/p>\n

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Why? Very simply, Megabots personifies the future of making things.<\/p>\n

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The means of production are changing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The old ways of making things have changed. Building stuff isn\u2019t about secluded teams, tired ideas, and waiting forever to secure lines of credit for prohibitively expensive initial investments. The future of making relies on communication expansion and connectivity. Organizations like Megabots work collaboratively on design projects across the globe and reacts to local taste and culture to produce on-point content. Megabots found a way to involve those passionate about robots by crowd sourcing the development of their turret cannon (and they used A360<\/a> to do it). They\u2019re using crowd funding to avoid large capital requirements. This nimble and collective creation method means their new ideas are brought to market faster, by anyone.<\/p>\n

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The future of manufacturing is highly customized. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe’re building the science fiction sports league of the future, one giant robot fight at a time,” said<\/p>\n

Gui Cavalcanti, MegaBots CEO.<\/p>\n

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Gone are the days of settling for good enough with what you find on the shelf.\u00a0 Megabots long-term vision is to build starter kits to help teams help themselves. Can you imagine highly personalized robot warriors representing your city?\u00a0 Megabots can. And they aren\u2019t the only company with this type of customize-to-fit mentality.\u00a0 The rise of economic prosperity around the globe has caused consumers to demand it. Now larger\u00a0 populations are connected and educated about products, and have more choices around which products they purchase.\u00a0 Aesthetics, personalization, sustainability, manufacturing location now have greater impacts as these are important to consumers. \u00a0The future is customized and Megabots is proving it.<\/p>\n

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Where does Fusion 360 come in? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Do you want your own mini Megabot? Of course you do.\u00a0 We at Fusion 360 are helping them do it!\u00a0 Gui and Matt recently compleleted a very successful Kickstarter campaign\u00a0and didn\u2019t want to just settle for providing rewards based on their last generation model. Last year we worked with them to make a totally 3D printable version of their “Mark 2” but this time they wanted better.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t willing to settle for a long lead time manufacturing run to injection mold on last year\u2019s model.\u00a0 Instead Megabots will be using on-demand 3D printing to provide their current Megabot vision as one of their Kickstarter sponsor rewards.\u00a0 Fusion 360 is a great tool for cranking out design concepts that are highly creative and complex while still producing robust, manufacturable geometry. \u00a0So, their first-generation concept\u00a0to turn the Mk2 into\u00a0\u2018Murricabot is quite literally the same model they are using for their Kickstarter reward.\u00a0 How\u2019s that for Kickstarter backers being involved in the process?<\/p>\n

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But wait there\u2019s more\u2026<\/p>\n