Lazlo was an experiment in developing a humanoid face. We built a clone of Cog's active vision head to allow use of existing active vision software in our group. The head had 7 DOF, including two cameras for each eye. The redundant cameras offered a wide and a foveated field of view. They also posed a design challange in making the face aesthetically pleasing. We added a 1 DOF jaw as well. The final face was printed using an SLA machine.

The head was later appropriated for research conducted by Giorgio Metta.

Edsinger, Aaron and Una-May O'Reilly. "Designing a Humanoid Robot Face to Fulfill Social Contracts". Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interaction (ROMAN2000, Osaka, Japan)[PDF]