For 34 years, Dutch inventor Theo Jansen has refined a wind-powered walking machine known as the Strandbeest. Using a computer simulation in 1990, he evolved 13 precise proportions that produce a ...

Theo Jansen wants to make "life" and he figures the best way to do it is to start from scratch. A self-styled god, Jansen is evolving an entirely new line of animals: immense multi-legged walking ...

There’s a cold wind blowing through Iowa, but last week it was even more pronounced at the Pioneer Hi-Bred Campus in Johnston, Iowa. There, a 20-ton, space-age looking machine nicknamed Boreas--a name ...

WENATCHEE, Wash. — Matt Ott doesn’t mind heights and that’s a good thing because he climbs plenty of 35-foot-tall wind machines in orchards this time of year, servicing them to be ready for spring ...