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 ...

It’s a real Transformer. A flat chunk of butterfly-shaped plastic magically folds itself into the shape of a four-legged robot – and then, astonishingly, walks off using its own power source. Built by ...

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 ...

A research by Harbin Institute of Technology states that DNA robots are emerging as a ground-breaking technological ...

Study: 3D-Printed soft Magnetoactive origami actuators. Advanced Functional Materials. Image Credit: SewCreamStudio/Shutterstock.com As outlined in a new study that ...

The 1.2 g PLioBot robot features an innovative origami design, integrating actuators for high-speed, multi-environment mobility and assembly-free fabrication.

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Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami. More recently, some of these teams started ...

In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot ...