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 ...

Researchers develop an ingestible origami robot that has demonstrated the ability to unfold and retrieve a button battery from a simulated stomach.

Is an origami robot uprising unfolding? Researchers at Harvard have developed flat robots that can fold themselves up into origami shapes and start walking.

Rather than paper, researchers are starting to apply origami’s principles to robotics: instead of putting a robot together piece by piece through some complicated assembly process, researchers ...

A graduate student has developed a robot that is capable of folding paper according to the rules of Japanese origami.

“The process begins when we first create an algorithm for folding. Similar to a set of instructions in an origami book, we determine, based upon the desired end shapes, where to crease the sheet.” ...

Using Shrinky Dinks and paper, origami inspired folding robot assembles itself and crawls in four minutes.

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 ...

New research details how origami structures and bio-inspired design can be used to create a crawling robot.