High-powered satellites use electromagnetic waveguides to deliver energy from one component to another. Typically, they are ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Nanjing University of China, ...

Origami isn’t just child’s play. The math and science behind paper folding can revolutionize how we make all kinds of technologies. Roboticist Shuguang Li used origami to develop soft, strong, and ...

Using modular units can build a housing project quickly, officials said, saving money and meeting more of the need in Orange County.

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, ...

Abstract: This work shows the conceptual design of a modular snake robot using modules built from a folded paper structure. Module interconnection scheme and their design specifications are based on ...

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 ...