Abstract: This paper proposes a new robotic platform based on origami robots and reconfigurable modular robots. The concept combines the advantages of both robot types into a mobile, ...

The first version of ORIPA was released in 2005. ORIPA was made open source in 2012, and was pushed to Github in 2013. To find out more about using the software ...

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...

Valeriu Andriuta’s The Circle (Cercul) has won the Screen International Award at the C EU Soon work-in-progress programme at Rome’s MIA Market. The Circle was one of several projects honoured at the ...

Abstract: Soft robotics has yielded numerous examples of soft grippers that utilize compliance to achieve impressive grasping performances with great simplicity, adaptability, and robustness.

The first winner of MIA Market’s Sony Pictures Television Award has been named, as the Rome event winds down this evening in Europe. The prize, which honors the Best Drama Project from the MIA Drama ...

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Researchers have now found a new class of origami that they call bloom patterns, ...

BYU Engineering is well known for origami-inspired research and innovations, including foldable antenna systems used in space. Recently, an undergraduate student made a significant discovery—a new ...

Paper folding is a popular Japanese tradition dating back centuries. It has even been said that these ornate paper creations have wish-granting powers to its artists. DOWNLOAD THE TUTORIAL You can ...

A cacophony of barking alerts me to the cardboard box delivered to my front door. Packed inside is a single sheet of white corrugated plastic folded into what looks like a large suitcase. My canine ...