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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 9 years old. The Strandbeest is an ...

Aloysius Low is a Senior Editor at CNET covering mobile and Asia. Based in Singapore, he loves playing Dota 2 when he can spare the time and is also the owner-minion of two adorable cats. Made up of ...

Interview: Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen has spent the last 24 years developing a series of wind-powered machines called Strandbeests that he describes as "a new species on Earth". Dezeen caught up with ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A pair of skeletal sculptures that harness the power of the wind to walk strutted around Boston's City Hall on Friday at the start of the U.S. tour of Dutch artist Theo Jansen's ...

Dutch artist Theo Jansen is famous for his massive walking Strandbeest sculptures. Now, he’s releasing miniature (and much cuter!) 3-D printed versions. For more than 20 years, Dutch artist Theo ...

For the past 25 years, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has dedicated his life’s work to building an entirely new species. Specimens can often be seen on the beaches near Delft in the Netherlands where, ...

Audemars Piguet has seemingly leapt into the art world. The most telling evidence of this is the Le Brassus, Switzerland-based brand’s sponsorship of all three editions of Art Basel (Basel, Hong Kong, ...

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 ...

Imagine a space where “beasts” that walk on wind roam freely. Technically they are not alive and yet they seem to have an existence all their own. Maybe there is some sort of “life” in them, is a ...

People of all ages have found themselves transfixed over the last couple of years by YouTube clips of Dutch environmental artist Theo Jansen’s enormous wind-propelled kinetic sculptures. In the ...