A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard has built the first origami-inspired robot that can fold and shuffle away by itself. According to a study published today in the journal Science, the ...

Researchers have developed a swallowable robot able to unfold inside a patient's stomach and then dislodge foreign objects or even carry out microsurgery.

Origami may be best known for its application in the art world, but inspired by its complex folding mechanisms and the structures they are capable of forming, researchers are now reappropriating ...

Although these robots take inspiration from origami in terms of their form and self-sufficiency, not needing additional parts to move or stay in shape, they also take inspiration from other ...

An ingestible origami robot designed to patch wounds, deliver medicine or remove foreign objects from a person's stomach has been developed by researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Since those materials aren't enough to make a full-fledged robot, the scientists also placed a flexible circuit board in the middle (with circuits extending to every hinge), two motors, a ...

AAAS’ Natasha Pinol narrates a time-lapse video that shows an origami robot taking shape over just a few minutes, then skittering away. Video courtesy Samuel Felton / Science / AAASAug. 7, 2014 ...

If for some bizarre reason pre-folded origami were ever to become next season's must-have trend (hey, weirder things have happened, it could be like the new Martha's breakout decor), then one PhD ...