Theo Jansen has been working on his Strandbeest since 1990. The Strandbeest is an artificial lifeform made of plastic tubes that acts like a skeleton and moves like a living creature, propelled by ...
Dutch inventor and artist Theo Jansen is bringing his Strandbeests to Miami. How did the creatures evolve to walk by themselves? He describes them as ‘skeletons that walk on the wind, so they don’t ...
SALEM — Standing in the sun-drenched atrium of the Peabody Essex Museum, “Animaris Ordis,” a skeletal network of bone-yellow PVC pipe, zip ties, and elastic bands, didn’t look like it was going ...
Massive mechanical creatures meander down sandy beaches seemingly of their own accord, their bodies made of nothing but complex arrangements of PVC pipes. These beasts don’t display any robotic parts, ...
Theo Jansen accompanies one of his walking "Animaris Umerus' "Strandbeests" on the shore of Scheveningen in the Netherlands in 2009. (Loek van der Klis) This piece was originally posted on Aug. 19, ...
For the past 20 years, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been perfecting a new form of life—the “Strandbeest.” Like a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci, Jansen has applied both artistic and engineering skills ...
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