In an effort to build stronger and more flexible robots, a team of researchers turned to origami to build some truly powerful machines. Now, researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University ...

What do you see when you close your eyes and imagine robots? Probably tough, metallic machines that can withstand all sorts of extreme conditions. While that's usually the case with most DARPA-funded ...

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.

An origami robot can crawl forward like a snake 1. Snakes’ winding movements have long inspired robotics researchers, but the linear motion that allows the reptiles to creep through tight spaces ...

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

Origami-like construction is a novel technology for objects that need to be stored and shipped in a compact form, and then folded out into strong 3D structures. Towards optimising such structures, ...

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Since its debut at the end of last year, Gemini 2.0 has gone on to power a handful of Google products, including a new AI Mode chatbot. Now Google DeepMind is using that same technology for something ...

Origami has been surprisingly prominent in science news of late, with this latest art project the smallest story to date. Scientists in the US claim to have successfully folded a single sheet of ...

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