M2 Macaco robot
		The M2 Macaco robotic head was created by Artur M. Arsenio as a biological inspired robotic head designed to resemble a morphism between a gorilla and a human head. The aesthetic parts were designed using Rhinoceros and Solidworks software packages, and manufactured through the process of DuraForming. A solidWorks drawing of the head that I designed is shown, together with the biped robotic body M2 (built at the MIT Leg Lab by Dan Paluska), that inspired the design, since the head was intended to be assmbled with this biped robot..
	The M2-M4 Macaco robot were created to emulate both a dog-like creature head (M4) or a morphism between a gorilla and a human head. This was motivated by the simulataneous development by the LegLab of a quadruped dog-like body M4 and a bipedal robot M2. Thus, the M2-M4 Macaco head was created with flexibility in mind: flexible design, manufacture and assembly; and aesthetic flexibility on resemblance with differerent creatures. The design of flexible robotic creatures reduces the cost of development, increases the range of applications for the device, and improves the assemblage process with other robotic devices. Indeed, a carefully designed mechanism may be transformed both visually and functionally, inasmuch flexibility is implemented at all levels: mechanical, hardware and software. Another issue of equal relevance is portability of both the mechanical device and its brain. Thus, besides its small weight, the robotic head is also equipped with a small and compact hardware architecture consisting of several CPU modules, framegrabbers, network communications and Inertial Sensor.