Origami can turn a flat sheet of paper into complex 3-D shapes like birds and flowers and frogs. Scientists at Harvard University's Microrobotics Lab are taking the art of paper folding to a new ...

Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, engineers have discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations using only three active motors.

Other researchers have been looking into this type of origami structure for robots already, but today’s is said to be the first result that can operate without any human intervention (aside from ...

Watch these ‘transformer’ robots fold themselves into boats, wheels and other useful shapes A magnetic cube moves to a sheet of origami that folds around it and transforms into a walking bot.

Researchers at MIT have created a "shape-shifting" origami robot that is able to automatically fold itself into a boat or a plane. The post Shape-Shifting Origami Bot Can Fold Itself into Boat and ...

Engineers have created a configurable robot that can transform into various structures, which has potential applications for building habitats in space.

You’ve probably seen origami “ robots ” before: flat sheets of metal or plastic that fold into bots that can walk, climb, and even swim. They’re not of much practical use right now, but ...

Researchers at MIT have created a "shape-shifting" origami robot that is able to automatically fold itself into a boat or a plane.