Many of us could happily fold a paper crane, yet few feel confident solving an equation like x³ – 3 x² – x + 3 = 0, to find a value for x. Both activities, however, share similar skills: precision, ...

Origami has plenty to offer the world of robotics, inspiring clever folding machines that could find their way into our stomaches and out to Mars. Scientists have again borrowed from this ancient ...

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 ...

While robots in space might have you thinking of the snarky droids of Star Wars or even the nefarious HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, most of them are much more limited in what they can do. For ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new shape-shifting system. Shape-shifting is achieved by the integration of arranged identical transformable units. These are self-folding origami modules that ...

Abstract: Inflatable origami structure has immense potential in realizing fast, customizable, large-deforming, and three-dimensional shape morphing in robotics. In this study, we developed a new ...