Animaris Rhinoceros Transport

From the Strandbeest website: "Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives."

I've seen a lot of robots walk, but I've never seen anything look so life-like that didn't require thousands (if not millions) of dollars worth of programmable motors and processors. These are wind-powered and absolutely gorgeous.

If these three things are seemingly out of reach creatively, try your own hand making an articulated machine with SodaConstructor, a software that allows the user to build and run virtual machines.