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 ...

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, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Has your child swallowed a small battery? In the future, a tiny robot made from pig gut could capture it and expel it. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Researchers have created a minuscule origami robot that unfolds itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, moves across the stomach wall to remove swallowed objects or ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for ...