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While not vehicles to ride, Theo Jansen's Strandbeast creatures/vehicles are able to walk only using the wind and wind powered pneumatics. His animated works are an incredible fusion of art and engineering and eventually Jansen wants to put his "animals" out in herds beaches, so they will live their own lives in peace.

Perhaps in the far, far future humanity's predecessors will learn to tame the gentle Strandbeast and the cycle will begin all over again.

When is a machine, not a machine? Ora Ito's amazing Evo Mobil sedan chair concept for Citroen.

Turkish sedan chair, circa 1893. Via:

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A Turkish Tahtırevan, 1893. Via: Invisible Stories

The Walking City was an idea proposed by British architect Ron Herron in 1964. In an article in avant-garde architecture journal Archigram, Ron Herron proposed building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own intelligence, that could freely roam the world, moving to wherever their resources or manufacturing abilities were needed. Various walking cities could interconnect with each other to form larger 'walking metropolises' when needed, and then disperse when their concentrated power was no longer necessary. Individual buildings or structures could also be mobile, moving wherever their owner wanted or needs dictated.. Via: MKF

 CGI model by Visoes Arquitetonicas

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 Mondo Spider "The world's first zero emission walking vehicle"

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William Richard Bradshaw's Walking Mechanical Ostrich  “Hockbockid” Via: Cybernetic Zoo

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 Hybrid Walking Cart circa 1977. Via: Cybernetic Zoo

Riding the machine with Scott Robertson's concept art

Ralph Mosher's 1969 "Pedipulator." Via: Cybernetic Zoo

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