With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

A paper crane that flaps its wings without a single motor inside it sounds like a magic trick. But engineers at Princeton ...

Soft robots aim to move and change shape smoothly, but they often rely on bulky motors or external systems. To overcome this, ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

The arm uses origami for its construction. Lightweight plastic is folded in construction. The arm is designed to assist people with disabilities. WORCESTER — When someone envisions a robotic arm, they ...

The combined mental prowess of Harvard University and MIT has yielded a special kind of self-assembling robot that folds up like origami and crawls away. The prototype, which is built almost entirely ...

Origami is no longer just art—it has become a powerful engineering tool. Scientists are using folding patterns to design ...

Introducing: Tribot, the robotic origami that is 2cm tall, weighs just 4 grams, folds up, and is capable of crawling and jumping. Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) ...