Inspired by Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest kinetic sculptures, California-based creative studio CARV created what might be the world’s fist and only walking bicycle. At first glance, it appears to be a movie prop or sculpture, but step closer, and you’ll see the team swapped the bicycle’s rear wheel for a metal exoskeleton consisting of four legs controlled by the pedals. Read more for a video and additional information.
It might look like a basic home project, but it is far more complex than you think, as the bike took 400 handmade parts and the span of seven months to complete. Its creator touts it as a “symbiosis of [a] bicycle and walking robotic creature Strandbeest,” which is basically a kinetic creature that micmics the movements of biological organisms with PVC bones, all the while powered by wind.
