Origami: It’s not just art anymore. Engineers are harnessing the Japanese art of paper-folding to build in smarter, more efficient ways. A team of researchers designed a self-folding robot that ...

A pill that unfolds into a little robot could one day give parents everywhere a little more peace of mind. Once swallowed, it can open up inside a person's stomach, crawling across the stomach ...

Watch this robot build itself using origami Folding together the robot of the future by Jacob Kastrenakes Source Science Aug 7, 2014, 11:00 AM PDT Harvard’s Wyss Institute ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty.

When the ice thaws inside the body, the robot unfurls as though it were a piece of origami filmed in reverse. Once flattened, the origami robot wriggles around the stomach, controlled by human ...

University of Illinois College of Engineering. "Origami-inspired robot." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 24 August 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 08 / 170824121428.htm>.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A soft, origami-inspired robot created by a Case Western Reserve University researcher may one day be used on an assembly line, in surgery or even outer space. The patent-pending ...

Even though the paper bot was made out of a single sheet of composite material, the robot that it folded itself into could walk and even turn. It easily carried the circuitry and batteries ...