Origami—the art of paper folding that originated in Japan centuries ago—could open a new frontier in innovative materials, ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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