The walking bot transforms itself into a boat-bot using folding techniques inspired by origami. This robot could be useful in a variety of settings, Rus added.

Over the course of four minutes, the origami robot slowly comes to life. Over the course of four minutes, the origami robot slowly comes to life. Seth Kroll/Wyss Institute A research team at ...

Researchers at MIT have created a "shape-shifting" origami robot that is able to automatically fold itself into a boat or a plane. The post Shape-Shifting Origami Bot Can Fold Itself into Boat and ...

An origami millirobot that integrates capabilities of spinning-enabled multimodal movement, cargo transportation and targeted drug delivery tumbles through a laboratory obstacle course.

To move, this origami bot relies on an external magnetic field in combination with what the engineers describe as stick-slip motion, a jerky push-pull against the stomach lining.

Rather than paper, researchers are starting to apply origami’s principles to robotics: instead of putting a robot together piece by piece through some complicated assembly process, researchers ...

Origami: It’s not just art anymore. Engineers are harnessing the Japanese art of paper-folding to build in smarter, more efficient ways. A team of researchers designed a self-folding robot that ...

Engineers have created a configurable robot that can transform into various structures, which has potential applications for building habitats in space.

Once inside the stomach, the robot's origami structure unfolds, allowing doctors to move it around from outside the patient's body with magnets. It isn't a robot in the conventional sense.

Researchers develop an ingestible origami robot that has demonstrated the ability to unfold and retrieve a button battery from a simulated stomach.

Danish scientists have developed an origami snake robot that could one day search for survivors at disaster sites, or even explore other planets. The device moves via rectilinear locomotion, just ...

Researchers have developed a tiny origami robot that is swallowed as a capsule, then unfolds in true Transformer style to patch a wound or remove foreign objects, such as button batteries.