AZoM talks to Professor Hanqing Jiang about his research relating to the characterization of metamaterials based on the properties of origami and kirigami. My name is Hanqing Jiang, a professor of ...

Your average, everyday paper airplane got a new twist — or rather, fold — at Peabody Essex Museum last weekend, where families from around the state explored the innovation and artistry of paper ...

Researchers have created butterflies that flap their wings, flower petals that wiggle with the touch of a button and self-folding origami drawing on new advances in soft robotics. Imagine opening up a ...

Tubular structures that fold flat for storage may not take up much room in that form, but they also tend not to be very strong when deployed. That isn't a problem with an experimental new type of tube ...

BHUBANESWAR: Activities related to origami and kirigami works became the centre of attraction at the 26th National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC) on Saturday. Not only the young scientists but ...

US researchers, inspired by the Japanese paper folding art of origami, have developed a “Transformer” robot that can assemble itself from a flat sheet and crawl away, without human intervention. The ...

A real-life Transformer has been created by scientists inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. In tests, the small shape-changing robot folded itself into a functional machine that ...

Young school students are learning the basics of drawing, free of cost, at the summer camp on drawing being held at the meting hall in Kalairanagam Complex in the city. The five-day camp is being ...

(Nanowerk News) Imagine opening up a book of nature photos only to see a kaleidoscope of graceful butterflies flutter out from the page. Such fanciful storybooks might soon be possible thanks to the ...