Using Shrinky Dinks and paper, origami inspired folding robot assembles itself and crawls in four minutes.

Various robots that combine strength and lightness by applying "origami" technology are being studied. Researchers at MIT have already adopted the origami structure, are compact, lightweight and ...

We put all sorts of stuff in our bodies every day; now, the developers of this little robot hope to change the world in a similar way.

The new origami-style muscles, or "actuators," can lift objects up to 1,000 times their own weight and cost less than $1 to make. Each muscle's folded inner skeleton sits inside a plastic or ...

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 ...

Experts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are designing an ingestible robot that can be directed into parts of the body to patch up wounds, deliver drugs or dislodge foreign objects.

Home > Extreme MIT creates origami robot you can swallow With the aid of a magnetic field, the origami robot can crawl around in your stomach for science.