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

A graduate student has developed a robot that is capable of folding paper according to the rules of Japanese origami.

Origami: It’s not just art anymore. Engineers are harnessing the Japanese art of paper-folding to build in smarter, more efficient ways. A team of researchers designed a self-folding robot that ...

These then can form “soft-rigid hybrid origami chamber structures” that crease depending on how long or short it needs to become in order to grab an object. The cuttlefish-inspired robot in ...

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 ...

Origami can turn a flat sheet of paper into complex 3-D shapes like birds and flowers and frogs. Scientists at Harvard University's Microrobotics Lab are taking the art of paper folding to a new ...