Various robots that combine strength and lightness by applying "origami" technology are being studied. Researchers at MIT have already adopted the origami structure, are compact, lightweight and ...

Folding robots are nothing new, but scientists from Harvard and MIT have taken it to the next level, by designing one that assembles itself and walks away to do its job with zero human input. The ...

Home > Extreme MIT creates origami robot you can swallow With the aid of a magnetic field, the origami robot can crawl around in your stomach for science.

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 ...

The new origami-style muscles, or "actuators," can lift objects up to 1,000 times their own weight and cost less than $1 to make. Each muscle's folded inner skeleton sits inside a plastic or ...