A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. By ...

The ancient Japanese paper-folding art of origami (“ori” meaning “folding,” and “kami” meaning “paper”) probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about groundbreaking robot ...

Just as origami can transform a piece of paper into a three-dimensional work of art, scientists have now used the techniques to transform thin, flimsy materials like polyester into incredibly strong ...

Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost micromotors for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature speakers. The ...

An origami robot -- which is already cool in its own right -- can now wear layers of outfits so that it can shed and discard them depending on the task at hand. Each outfit is made of sheets of ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In a paper published today, researchers describe four exoskeletons, each made out of a plastic sheet that folds ...

Here’s a little robot that knows how to dress for the occasion. Scientists at MIT have built a bot that can, with a little origami action, change its shape from a walking bot to a rolling or even a ...

A Case Western Reserve University researcher has turned the origami she enjoyed as a child into a patent-pending soft robot that may one day be used on an assembly line, in surgery or even outer space ...

New research details how origami structures and bio-inspired design can be used to create a crawling robot. New research from a team of University of Illinois Mechanical Science and engineering ...