Theo Jansen’s artificial lifeform Strandbeest now improved with actual lifeform… a hamster.

Artist and biomechanician Theo Jansen has been creating artificial life forms since 1990. He calls them Strandbeest. And now artificial lifeform has been mated, in a fashion, to a real lifeform. That is, a hamster.

The top-heavy animal-ified mechanical transporter makes it feel like a mini, cuter version of a Star Wars AT-AT.

 

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