About Us - History
MOTEK was founded in 1994 as a privately held motion capture, animation and visualization studio. The worldwide headquarters of MOTEK are anchored in the harbor district of Amsterdam. 
The early mission of MOTEK focused on the development and implementation of innovative animation and visualization techniques focusing or real time generation of realistic animations.
The company managed project work to ensure growth without the need for venture capital or going public till 1998. In 1997, MOTEK had applied for a research grant to the European commission in order to develop the system now known as CAREN (Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment) This grant was received in 1998 and enabled the development of CAREN's 1st prototype.
The company then went through restructuring since a medical division had to be developed to market CAREN, MOTEK then received external funding through TWINNING and NPM capital, both Dutch based investment companies.
The 1st production grade CAREN system was sold to the University of Groningen in 2000. Since then 10 systems have been installed in medical research facilities and hospitals around the world.
Recently, MOTEK's founder and CEO have bought back most of the shares from TWINNING, The company now has 21 staff divided among its entertainment, medical and simulation arms.
Some of MOTEK's innovation landmarks are mentioned below.
Landmarks
1992: First real time optical motion capture system presented at FLANDERS TECHNOLOGY fair, in cooperation with
Prof. Hans Furnee from the TU Delft.
1993:First real time full body motion capture presented at Bio-mechanics trade fair in Paris
using the prototype "Primas" system.
1994: MOTEK opens a motion capture and production studio in Amsterdam The Netherlands.
1995:First use of full motion capture on location integrated into a live action film production shots in real time during the production of - MORTAL KOMBAT II in Thailand.
1997: MOTEK receives a research grant from the European commission for the CAREN project.
1998:D-flow - The first technology to provide a real time feedback loop between a motion
tracking system and a motion platform.
1999: UNICA - First web based solution for real time blending of motion capture data.
2000: MOTEK launches StockMoves, a web based motion capture data library for graphic artists,
animators, game developers and medical specialists.