Dec 192009
www.ted.com Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move — and even survive — on their own.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore …
AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!
Do those creature believe in Theo Jansen or do they believe they developed from simplier forms.
artistic. but no more than that.
thats so ingenious it’s awsome!!!
, the automatas is an old invetntion… this is an actualization by a good ingenner. we have to revalluate an applicate this kind of clean technice in all possible ways
es una bosta
GENIOUS
How does he make the joints?
can i eat it?
He says his invention is even better than wheel, but absolutely not! Wheel is biggest human invention and it will remain .
How can he say that? A wheel when is moving ,do have a dynamic balance but this thing is independent of other feet to keep its balance.Another reason is that he is inspired from the nature and animals but we can not find any wheel in nature and it is the result of pure creativity of people of Ur in Mesopotamia (part of modern day Iraq)as early as 3500 BC.
hm…
If we create one HUGE, like 1000feet, it would be perfect, and no one should stop him.
muhuhhahaha!!
i can tell he does not speak english well but this guy is amazing…ive seen other kinetic sculptures and he puts higher level
The car commercial afterward was almost as cool as these simple life-forms.
you’d have to make it out of different piping though.
If somehow this artist and genious gets to read this, man, you have an extraordinary mind. Greetings from Chile.
amazing
Simply geniously made!
how the hell is “Japan” a site?
how the fuck is that racist?
Great idea, in theory. Issue is getting it there, and then getting it out of the pod, and then getting it back. If we were to leave it on Mars, getting the images back would be the other issue.
They should ship one to mars to explore the surface. These beasts can walk on almost any terein , and don’t cost much energy, which they produce themselves. Mars has some wind to and sun. The beasts know where to walk and were not. What do you think of this idea !?
this for me is proof that all of life is one large mechanism.
or that all mechanisms come from life
Goed gedaan !!! )well done !!!
designer of these creatures had a touch creating BMW Gina
I’ll call this artificial intelligence before I call anything else by that name. Well done Theo!