In an effort to build stronger and more flexible robots, a team of researchers turned to origami to build some truly powerful machines. Now, researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University ...

Reminiscent of the Japanese art of paper folding, the Untethered Miniature Origami robot uses magnetic fields to self-fold, walk and swim. Developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

When Larissa Novelino started her career as an engineer, she never expected that paper folding would become the center of her ...

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 ...

Towards optimising such structures, researchers at Pusan National University in Korea have found a way to make a monolithic pre-object flat-pack by defining stiff flat parts and flexible hinges in ...

The field of robotics has transformed drastically in this century, with a special focus on soft robotics. In this context, ...

To date, experts have mainly utilised paper, thin glass, and polymers as foldable materials for such applications. However, fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) remains underexplored in terms of the ...

Marking a significant advancement in molecular robotics, researchers have created custom-designed and programmable nanostructures using DNA origami. The University of Sydney Nano Institute team ...

The field of robotics has transformed drastically in this century, with a special focus on soft robotics. In this context, origami-inspired deployable ...