We put all sorts of stuff in our bodies every day; now, the developers of this little robot hope to change the world in a similar way.

Various robots that combine strength and lightness by applying "origami" technology are being studied. Researchers at MIT have already adopted the origami structure, are compact, lightweight and ...

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

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 ...

The team took inspiration from traditional Japanese origami. 3D-design software, a programme called Origamizer, created the folds in the plastic along which the robot folds itself.

The new origami-style muscles, or "actuators," can lift objects up to 1,000 times their own weight and cost less than $1 to make. Each muscle's folded inner skeleton sits inside a plastic or ...