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  • Origami Inspires the Development of Transformative Structures and Materials

    Novelino has created many different structures inspired by origami. (Image Credit: Rice University ) Scientists often turn to the art of paper folding as a source of inspiration to build projects. Larissa Novelino, assistant professor of civil and environmental…
  • Transformers Come to Life: Autonomous Origami Robot that Folds Itself and Walks Away

    Shots of the Origami bot in action folding from flat, to a walking stance. (via Wyss Institute/Harvard ) The same team of MIT and Wyss Institute Harvard students that demo’ed a self folding inch worm at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics…
  • Surgical "da Vinci" robot used to fold tiny pieces of paper

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  • Researchers develop origami-inspired microbot

    These tiny machines, just one centimeter in size, can fold into complex shapes and perform tasks. It has the potential to be used for applications in fields like medical equipment and infrastructure sensing. (Image Credit: Robert Coelius/Michigan Engineering…
  • Soft robot can lift 1000 times its own weight

    These new artificial muscles not only prove to be strong, but are also easy to make and cost effective. Though it looks like a snake made in origami, it’s actually a new soft robot (Photo from MIT CSAIL) Because soft robotics are flexible, it allows these…
  • NASA Robots Inspired By Origami Can Explore More Difficult Terrain

    NASA's PUFFER is a new robot being developed at their Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and is designed so that it can fold its wheels and explore terrain that was previously inaccessible to full-size rovers. The PUFFER robot was field…