Curved origami isn’t just elegant art. It’s also a versatile way to vary the amount of force applied by robots and other machines.

A robot that can make delicate paper models using the ancient Japanese art of origami has been developed by a US student. Origami involves folding and sometimes tearing paper to build three ...

Using Shrinky Dinks and paper, origami inspired folding robot assembles itself and crawls in four minutes.