This is a looooong clip of Youtuber Emulated Vintage Gaming taking a 10-hour walk from the Shire to Mordor in The Lord Of The Rings Online, tracing Frodo’s steps as close to Tolkien’s legendarium as possible, accompanied by passages from The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The

With the addition of “The Caterpillar” attachment, Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest kinetic walking sculptures can now tow a human along the beach. How about that! Mount a metal detector to that thing and we’ll be unearthing watches and coins in no time. Cha-ching! I still remember the first time

This is a video of Dutch kinetic artist Theo Jansen and four of his Strandbeests he lashed together to move along the beach as one giant beest, powered by the breeze. Just look at that thing go! Next stop: training it to wave a metal detector. Pirate treasure, here I

Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, this is a video demonstration of Dutch game designer Giliam de Carpentier’s Carpentopod, a wooden coffee table that walks and can be remote controlled. Carpentopod, fetch me a beer! “Remote controlled, not voice controlled.” Riiiiight. *tossing empty can on floor* Well it could use a

This is a video highlighting the evolution of Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS humanoid robot over the past 40 years, including from before Boston Dynamics even existed and early legged robotic locomotion was being studied at MIT’s Leg Lab. It was actually pretty interesting to see the walking technology develop. Sometimes by

Built by Dutch artists Aat Dirks and Ad Lakerveld, the Pedaalbeest is a pedal-powered walking machine inspired by the kinetic wind-powered Strandbeests created by Theo Jansen. To move forward, you pedal backwards. Is it practical? Absolutely not. It’s still cool though. The way it moves — it reminds me of

This is a precision walking demonstration by a group of Japanese high school students (this was not a club at my high school), with two groups of walkers passing through each other diagonally without running into each other and winding up a writhing pile of bodies on the gym floor.

Space: I know all about it because I was born there. Most people don’t know as much, or care to bother learning. About anything, really. That’s a shame. This is a video of astronaut A.J. Feustel attempting to walk heel-to-toe in a straight line here on earth after spending 197