「折り紙」の技術を応用して強度と軽さを両立するさまざまなロボットが研究されています。MITの研究者は、すでに折り紙の構造を応用した小型・軽量で自在に動きまわれる「Origami Robot」を発表していましたが、新たに、体内で開閉して誤飲したボタン電池 ...

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Researchers from MIT and Harvard have created an origami-inspired robot that can fold itself from a flat, resting state into a functioning, three-dimensional shape to begin crawling across a surface.

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Researchers from MIT have designed a new ingestible “robot” that could one day be used to patch ...

In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking automatons.

A robot that can make delicate paper models using the ancient Japanese art of origami has been developed by a US student. Origami involves folding and sometimes tearing paper to build three ...

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It may sound like a machine from a sci-fi film, but a tiny self-folding ‘origami' robot that can walk and swim, before self-destructing, has been revealed. Small enough to sit on a fingertip and ...