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Theo Jansen Makes A Plastic Robot Powered By Wind

submitted by lucasgreen

1 decade 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

25 Comments

genius at work

TimothyChenAllen says...

That was slightly creepy. But incredible (wish I could start using that 9th % of my brain).

totaly awesome!!

Dig that song.

thats fricken cool.

does anyone see how wind is powering this? I can't make it out...

I think it's turning those wing parts on top, putting a bind on the other peices connected to it and the whole structure shifts and some of the legs are able to go forward, releiving the pressure on the propellers??

Something like that.

What is that song?

I'd like more specifics about the technology. The song was cool, but not the point of the video.

That's incredible.
The music's 'Mr Soft' by Cockney Rebel.

I like smart people
cool song too

*nominate

This video has been nominated as a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member deputydog)

*art *nature *science

Adding video to channels (Art, Nature, Science) - requested by arvana.

*promote

Promoting this classic video back to the front page; last published Monday, September 11th, 2006 12:05am PDT - promote requested by oxdottir.

Brilliant.

*engineering

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by Thylan.

*dead

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by ctrlaltbleach.

Awarding Boise_Lib with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

*length=2:56

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 2:56 - length declared by Boise_Lib.

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