SOUTHINGTON, CT – Motion experts at The Baumer Group began working closely with scholars from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab) at the University of Zurich In June of 2012 to design and create the first humanoid robot that moves, acts and responds like a human being. Nine months later, "Roboy" was born and introduced to the world at Robots on Tour in Zurich, Switzerland, on March 8, 2013.

At Hannover Messe 2013 in Germany, newly appointed vice president of SEW-Eurodrive Co. of Canada Ltd. Anthony Peluso describes the company's broad line of drives, gears, motors and controls for applications in natural resources, packaging and food & beverage sectors.

Craig Therrien, Product Manager, SolidWorks, talks about improvements to core functionality such as section views, as well as the benefits of two major recent introductions – SolidWorks Electrical and SolidWorks Plastics.

Elias Knubben, an industrial designer and Head of the Bionic Learning Network at Festo, demonstrates the future of the company's robotic research by employing queues from nature to create a bird with flapping wings and other nature-inspired devices. The company makes extensive use of SolidWorks CAD software to prove out designs before they are built. Previously, Festo relied on helium to produce airborne flying penguins, jellyfish and rays. Watch towards the end of this video as the SolidWorks World 2013 audience of 4,500 follow the flight of Festo's bionic bird.

Harting is developing sensor-equipped passive UHF RFID systems, a concept with great potential to unlock new productivity and product quality benefits for a wide spectrum of businesses. This video illustrates the newest innovations the company is pursuing to become a leading global one-stop shopping resource for all RFID requirements: software, hardware, systems integration as well as consulting.

In the lead-up to the WorldSkills Competition in Leipzig, Germany this summer, a team from Toronto's Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning won gold for mechatronics at the 2012 WorldSkills Americas event in Brazil.

According to Microsoft Research, one promising direction in the evolution of Kinect for Windows is enabling hand-gesture recognition. A machine-learning project uses a large, varied set of images of people's hands to train Kinect to determine if a hand is open or closed. This enables the development of a handgrip detector, which could launch another step forward in natural user interfaces. Cem Keskin, a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, demonstrates.

Mcor Technologies Ltd, maker of the 3D printers with the industry’s highest color capability, introduced the Mcor IRIS 3D color printer to an American audience for the first time at SolidWorks World 2013. The eco-friendly Mcor IRIS, made available in December 2012, prints in more than one million hues simultaneously as it creates durable, photorealistic physical objects from 3D data. 

Caleb Funk, a solutions consultant with IMAGINiT Technologies and Autodesk University 2012 presenter, explains how the Autodesk Product Design Suite offering assists designers with providing the correct tool for the task at hand. The Product Design Suite takes the design workflow from conceptualization and engineering through to simulation and documentation.

Autodesk CEO Carl Bass introduces Fusion 360 during a keynote address to the 8,000 attending Autodesk University 2012 in Las Vegas. Fusion 360, which permits 3D design and collaboration in the cloud, is currently rolled out in a Beta Program. “The great thing about this next generation of tools," said Bass,  "is that you don’t have to embrace them all at once. Not at all. We built them to complement how you already get your work done. You can adopt them at your own pace.”