A team of engineers at Harvard and MIT have created a robot that assembles itself in little more than four minutes and then crawls away — with no human help.The team of engineers and computer ...

Imagine soft robots scurrying through rubble with the agility of geckos or leaping over obstacles with the dynamism of frogs—capabilities that would prove invaluable in post-disaster rescue and ...

According to @ai_darpa, MIT engineers have developed an origami-inspired robot that begins as a flat sheet, self-folds into a centimeter-sized form when heated, and is capable of crawling, swimming, ...

Abstract: Soft origami continuum robots show great potential compared with traditional rigid robots because of their hyper-redundant deformation. However, motion control of these robots remains ...

The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues. By Neil Vigdor and Sanjana Varghese It was an ...

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has created a new 3D-printing method that builds paper-thin ‘magnetic muscles’ capable of bringing origami structures to life for the purpose ...

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 new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

A crawling robot created with the Miura-Ori origami pattern. The dark areas are covered in a thin magnetic rubber film which allows the robot to move.North Carolina State University Origami isn’t just ...