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, ...

McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

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 ...

Origami isn’t just art anymore. A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has developed a new 3D printing technique that gives origami robots a life of their own, thanks to paper-thin ...

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 ...

McGill University engineers have developed new ultra-thin materials that can be programmed to move, fold and reshape ...

Movable structures can be manufactured from flexible, tear-resistant graphene oxide films, which simultaneously provide ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at McGill University have developed ultra-thin materials that can be programmed to move, fold and reshape ...