Scientists turned simple knots into tiny robots that jump, spin, and plant seeds, offering a new tool for ecosystem restoration.

Origami is no longer just art—it has become a powerful engineering tool. Scientists are using folding patterns to design surgical devices, space structures, and even bulletproof materials. A single ...

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs inside the body and help explore dangerous environments. But the squishy ...

Origami gives engineers a toolkit of foldable 3D shapes that can change form and function. These structures can shift between folded states and adjust their strength and behavior; this is useful for ...

Imagine soft robots scurrying through rubble with the agility of geckos or leaping over obstacles with the dynamism of frogs—capabilities that would prove invaluable in post-disaster rescue and ...

According to @ai_darpa, MIT engineers have developed an origami-inspired robot that begins as a flat sheet, self-folds into a centimeter-sized form when heated, and is capable of crawling, swimming, ...

According to @ai_darpa, MIT engineers have developed an origami-inspired robot that begins as a flat sheet, self-folds into a centimeter-sized form when heated, and is capable of crawling, swimming, ...

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has created a new 3D-printing method that builds paper-thin ‘magnetic muscles’ capable of bringing origami structures to life for the purpose ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

A crawling robot created with the Miura-Ori origami pattern. The dark areas are covered in a thin magnetic rubber film which allows the robot to move. Credit: North Carolina State University.

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...