The researchers compare their use of origami to 3D printing — an increasingly easy way to turn 2D materials into 3D shapes.

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 ...

We put all sorts of stuff in our bodies every day; now, the developers of this little robot hope to change the world in a similar way.

Using Shrinky Dinks and paper, origami inspired folding robot assembles itself and crawls in four minutes.

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 ...

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 ...