Now a team has taken inspiration from origami to create a modular metamaterial ... from lightweight dancing robots to mechanical computing.

In their accompanying paper, the researchers described the robot as an "origami magic-ball" coated with a flexible thin membrane. Here's the robot in action: An advantage of the soft robot is that ...

Engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are trying to change that, with a new robotic arm that has been inspired by the ...

In theory, their design — which was largely inspired by the paper-folding art of origami — offers a more efficient way to send assembly structures into space, where the robot could then ...

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This essentially makes these structures into a self-assembling type of origami by ... demonstrated robot uses a sandwich of layers of pre-stretched polystyrene (PSPS), paper and a PCB.

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Origami—the Japanese art of folding paper—could be the next frontier in innovative materials. Practiced in Japan since the ...

Designed in Blender, cut on a desktop CNC paper cutter, and driven by a pair of small robots linked to an Arduino ... He claims that it’s an origami Strandbeest, but we’re not so sure.