The first thing Jeremy Cook thought when he saw a video of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest walking across the beach was how incredible the machine looked. His second thought was that there was no way he’d ...

If you’ve never seen a Strandbeest before, you’re going to want to watch the video after the break. Invented by [Theo Jansen], a Strandbeest is a kinematic work of art. An eight legged structure that ...

Theo Jansen has been creating wind-walking examples of artificial life since 1990. What was at first a rudimentary breed has slowly evolved into a generation of machines that are able to react to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The Exploratorium at Pier 15 in San Francisco has attracted an enormous eye-catching exhibition that's sure to be an attention-grabber. These things are called Strandbeest, that ...

In a way, it’s kind of refreshing to see tech-savy engineer Crabfu construct a hamster powered Strandbeest, because these days, let’s be honest, people are doing much creepier things with pint-sized ...

Theo Jansen gathered with a small group of people last week to bring Animaris Suspendisse back from the dead. All 43 feet of it was standing in the exhibition hall of Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, ...

A breathtaking image by Lena Herzog opens Ian Frazier’s story this week on Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests—kinetic sculptures, resembling giant animal skeletons, that can walk on the beach, powered only by ...

Strandbeests – or “beach creatures” – are “moving,” “breathing” and “walking” sculptures created by Dutch artist Theo Jansen. “Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen,” organized by the Peabody ...

A Dutch artist who was trained as a physicist, Theo Jansen, 67, has spent the last 25 years perfecting the design of his Strandbeests (loosely translated, the name means “beach creatures”). Propelled ...

We’ve seen hamsters ride around in mechanisms inspired by Theo Jansen’s strandbeests, and now humans have gotten in on the act. Attendees of the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire got to see the Panterragaffe ...