My creations, a new form of life | Theo Jansen

http://www.ted.com Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/tednews Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives https://www.facebook.com/TED

Topics:

["Theo Jansen", "TED", "TEDTalks", "Talks", "sculpture", "creatures", "kinetic", "physics", "wind powered", "water powered", "inspired by nature", "invention", "strandbeests", "biomechanics", "motion", "art", "imitation", "nature", "green art", "green sculpture", "recycling", "plastic", "lifelike", "animal", "wheel", "wind", "sea", "ocean", "water", "beach", "active", "dynamic", "alternative energy", "new lifeform", "form of life", "walking sculpture", "wind turbine"]

Duration

Duration minutes: 10

Duration seconds: 11