With SOLIDWORKS sponsorship
www.solidworks.com/First you will get access to our general robot tutorials for mechanical and electrical CAD. Also SOLIDWORKS Simulation and SolidWorks Composer.
Each one of these documents take from 1-2 hours. It is a good general intro.
You can download sample robots from our solidworks.com First page.
Additional tutorials on photorealistic rendering and animation are inside the software.
For a good intro check out borntodesign.tv to hear stories from robot manufacturers and automation engineers. Gives a big picture as to why you are learning and why SolidWorks is a good skill to have. Marie