A New Species?

   Artist Theo Jansen is working on engineering a new "species" as he refers to it. He crafts giant sea creatures, or Animaris with skeletons of steel or electrical tubing, but no motors. He hopes one day to achieve the creation of machines capable of long-term autonomous motion, that he can set free to roam about the beaches of the Netherlands, propelled only by the wind. The latest product of his artistic imagination, the Percipiere, contains lemonade bottles into which its flapping wings pump air pressure, thereby enabling itself to use this stored "energy" to walk for several more minutes after the last gust of wind passes. The only question I have is where he thinks he's headed with all this. To what purpose, exactly, does he see them roaming about?