Once you’ve seen a strandbeest, it’s hard to forget the mesmerizing movement of its mechanical limbs. [Adam Savage] built a pedal-powered strandbeest in (more than) one day in full view of the public ...

For 34 years, Dutch inventor Theo Jansen has refined a wind-powered walking machine known as the Strandbeest. Using a computer simulation in 1990, he evolved 13 precise proportions that produce a ...