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 ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. What you want to know: The scoop: Theo Jansen's Strandbeest project is like nothing else in the world. They're sculptures that move with the wind — or with human ...

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, ...

Dutch artist Theo Jansen showed off his Strandbeest mechanical creatures on the sand in front of the W Hotel Friday for an event with Audemars Piguet and the Peabody Essex Museum. Jansen, who began ...

[Theo Jansen] has come up with a n intriguing wind-powered strandbeest which races along the beach with surprising speed and grace. According to [Jansen], it “doesn’t have hinging joints like the ...

Jansen's creations are made of pipes, harness wind energy, and move in a way that fools you into believing they're alive. Theo Jansen's Strandbeests are a strange combination of primitive robots and ...

For once, not everyone gathered around Cloud Gate this morning was there to take a selfie. Instead, a small group of onlookers was there to watch Dutch artist Theo Jansen walk his Strandbeest kinetic ...

A herd of large, futuristic creatures born on the wild, windswept Dutch coast has taken up residence a world away in fast-paced high-rise Singapore. Their creator, Theo Jansen, calls them strandbeests ...

Dutch artist Theo Jansen first started creating his signature "Strandbeest" ("Beach Animal") works in 1990. These huge objects, a combination of art and science, are made mostly out of plastic tubes ...

Theo Jansen's "Strandbeest" sculptures are more like a species of artificial animals than a work of art. Their movements are incredibly life-like. Meaning "beach animals" in Dutch, Jansen's creations ...