[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_-Y-eIlQo[/youtube]
My friend DJ Kiva who teaches at Dubspot with me showed me this yesterday. It’s a compilation of a couple of clips of artist/engineer Theo Jansen’s work in motion. He calls it kinetic sculpture and it’s insanely beautiful.
Jansen is amazing – you should check out his talk at TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html
At work we’re adapting his walker design to function as a person-transporter:
http://vimeo.com/6058881
…he has an ingenious design, and it catches fire way less often than our other robots.