Robot Walking Macaw Rig

Meet the robot macaw. A walking, talking, mechanical, macaw to invite and entertain your guests. The plan is to develop a fully articulated animatronic macaw to be used in a number of applications from avian research to a welcoming display in a restaurant or shopping center and also to be made available for anyone to buy.

The rig will include the following features: -Full eyelid movements, using technology already proven in some of my other work. -Beak control with 2 axis movements, -Full head control with dynamic compliance features of the body movements -Walk along its perch-Talking with synchronized movements -Realfeel fabrication to look like a real macaw Here is the prototype