theo jansen<p>strandbeest<p>his talk at TED:
<a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talk/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talk/theo_jansen_creates_new_cr...</a><p>see the animal under this invention about 3:30 into the clip
What I didn't get from the interview was 'why'.
Does this thing have any significance?
With the Segway, even if it wasn't a commercial success,it was popularized for what was an amazing technical achievement. What is it that the team who created the Cajun Crawler has achieved.<p>I'm sure there is something, I just don't know what it is.