Phoenix Contact push-in relay "go-fly-a-kite" test demonstrates strength and vibration resistance of its PLC relays with PT retention technology.

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.

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.

ELGIN, IL – Starting in 2005, the headquarters and distribution site/centre of Harting Inc. of North America serving the U.S., Canada and Mexico, also become a production facility serving North American machine manufacturing, factory automation, information technology and transportation customers.

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.

Terrafugia, the "flying car" company, was founded in 2006 by award winning MIT-trained aeronautical engineers and MBAs – who also happen to be passionate private pilots. Taking advantage of new U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations in the Light Sport Aircraft category, Terrafugia developed the Transition Roadable Aircraft to provide private and sports pilots the convenience of a dual-purpose vehicle for flight and road use.

SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual was previewed at SolidWorks World 2013 in Orlando, FL, by Fielder Hiss, VP product management at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp. In May of this year, SolidWorks will be working with select customers to validate its principles of conceptual design in their production environments. Once confident in the benefits these customers are seeing the company expects to make SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual available to all users in the Fall of 2013.