Curved origami structures provide tunable flexibility to robots. New research that employs curved origami structures has dramatic implications in the development of robotics going forward, providing ...

Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, has received considerable attention in engineering. By applying paper-folding principles, researchers have created compact structures that are ...

Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. One uncut square of paper can, in the hands of an origami artist, be folded into a bird, a frog, a sailboat, or a Japanese samurai helmet beetle.

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 ...