Researchers from MIT and Harvard have created an origami-inspired robot that can fold itself from a flat, resting state into a functioning, three-dimensional shape to begin crawling across a surface.

Devin Balkcom, a student in Carnegie Mellon University's doctoral program in robotics, was looking for a challenge when he decided to develop the world's first origami-folding robot as the ...

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Scientists in Japan are developing a way for a tiny medical robot to enter your system and administer medicine — origami style. The team is made up of researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Researchers from MIT have designed a new ingestible “robot” that could one day be used to patch ...

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 ...