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This chapter reviews the self-regarding tradition as taught in Western business schools concerning the assumed process by which the concept of “management” entered our discourse. It is usually presented as a product of the Renaissance and subsequently the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in which Cartesian dualism and Taylorian scientific management were logical staging posts. Some add Adam Smith and his frame of the market economy as central parts of this canonical tradition (Crowley and Sobel, 2010). However, etymological analysis places “management” as a term of art rather earlier and as a borrowing from an Italian term related to the taming and control of horses introduced to Europe through the Arabian horse lineages from the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean with their Arab and Andalucian trainers. These horse trainers were known by a term derived from the Latin “manus,” a hand. Thus, “management” entered our vocabulary as a term for a craft based on handwork rather than as a demonstration of a scientific cognitive consciousness. These words came through stables rather than studies, through fields and farms rather than offices. Similarly, Machiavellian politicking literature follows a borrowing from an extant tradition already widespread in the Islamic world.

The bio-inspired robotics use functional elements of natures for inspiration. The development of the TB-Horse II prototype is the main target of this work. It is a bio-inspired quadruped robot with biological features in horse of the breed Mangalarga Marchador. In future, the robot can be used to rescue injured people, to carry fragile loads, among others applications. With the study of horse biodynamic, it was possible to propose the TB-Horse II. The gait marcha was implemented and validated using the Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform (V-Rep). Finally, the robot prototype was developed and the experimental validation was realized on a flat ground without obstacles.