A new robot that can win any game of Rock, Paper, Scissors you throw at it has popped up at the University of Tokyo. It’s a third-generation design by researchers at Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory, and ...

Hyakkin guzzu kaizō hīrō daishūgō (Making Your Own Action Figures from 100-Yen-Store Goods) is a book that brings rubber ducks, tires, squeaky hammers, and other familiar everyday objects and toys to ...

Using paper coated with silicon resin and iron particles, researchers created an untethered soft robot that can move without any electronics. This magnetically controlled device can detect heavy metal ...

The toilet paper company is introducing a new field of bathroom-betterment. This is a Digital Trends story. Charmin is known for its hilarious commercials, but now the toilet paper company is ...

ZURI is a DIY, programmable “Paperbot” system, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: The parts are built with paper and cardboard. Plus, the design is modular. By combining leg- and ...

Thanks to the folks over on Reddit for digging up this amazing clip of a rock-paper-scissors robot that wins EVERY SINGLE TIME. It comes from the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, ...

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

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Though clearly inspired by the snake, a new soft robot out of Harvard takes cues from another fascinating source: the ancient Japanese paper craft kirigami. Unlike origami, kirigami uses cuts rather ...