Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient ...

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has created a new 3D-printing method that builds paper-thin ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aug. 7 (UPI) --No batteries necessary -- or humans! New robots created by a team of researchers from Harvard and MIT can assemble and begin crawling all on their own. "We ...

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 ...

What do you get when you combine paper and Shrinky Dinks? If you are a Harvard or MIT engineer, you might just get an origami-inspired self-folding robot. Of course, there is a little more to it than ...

Origami may be best known for its application in the art world. But inspired by its complex folding mechanisms, researchers are reappropriating the craft to create reconfigurable robots that are able ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking ...

It’s alive! Using some paper, a circuit board and the plastic used in Shrinky Dinks, a team of researchers has designed an origami-inspired crawling robot that folds itself into working order in about ...

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 ...