Theo Jansen builds large mechanisms out of PVC pipes and plastic bottles, that are able to move on its own, without battery or electricity.
He strives to equip his creations with their own artificial intelligence, so they can avoid obstacles by changing course when it detects an obstacle.
“Life should be able to move itself. When I started creating "Strandbeests", I found the top of legs should move the parallel with ground first and after a while, moved up a little in a certain way. I decided to trace this same movement with a link mechanism and simulated the movement on the screen of my ATARI computer. Finally, I came up with the 13 "Holly numbers" that expressed the proportion of the length of legs segment
Theo is neither an Artist nor an Engineer. He is sort of both. As he characterizes,”the walls between Art and Engineering exists only in our minds”.
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