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Series of robots and "new forms of life" using Theo Jansen mechanism - Blender Bullet SmallLuxGPU

Published on Nov 20, 2012

Wanting to build simple but interesting looking robots, chose an interesting articulated wheel: the Theo Jansen mechanism.
All robots were programmatically generated, composed entirely of individual rigid body physics parts (everything you see) with relative mass, driven only by their motors' torque (angular/rotation force), nothing else.
No manual keyframes; no animation bones or inverse kinematics; only pure physics consequences from simple motor logic, resulting movements are natural behaviours.
 

watch an MRI-powered StrandBeest crawl inside a clinical scanner

Published on May 12, 2015

Theo Jansen's strandbeests were designed to walk powered by the wind. In this version, designed by Remy Kaldawy, a clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner (MRI) applies forces to a small steel ball in the rotor arm, enabling the strandbeest to walk around wirelessly under the guidance of the MRI.

The MRI-powered strandbeest was developed during Remy's summer internship in 2014 at Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School.
 

WOW!!! Incredible drill powered walking machine!

Published on Jul 6, 2015

Homemade, drill powered walking machine that you can ride. This crazy contraption was inspired by Theo Jansen's kinetic sculpture walking beast. With a diy gear box and a dewalt 20 volt drill it can handle loaded of up to 370 lbs.
 

Watch out for the Beast! 25 years Hase Special Bikes

Published on May 2, 2019

The Hase Special Bikes Company celebrates 25th aniversary at the SPEZI 2019 with a special vehicle: THE BEAST.
A hommage to Theo Janssens "Strandbeasts".
 
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