This little guy is about to impress you. It’s able to fold itself, walk, swim, carry things and even degrade into nothingness. The little origami robot is cool. Made from a laser-cut, 1.7 cm-square ...

Researchers develop an ingestible origami robot that has demonstrated the ability to unfold and retrieve a button battery from a simulated stomach. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

This self-folding robot goes from flat to fast (sort of) in just four minutes. Using flat materials and origami-inspired patterns, researchers have designed a real-life transformer that can assemble ...

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 ...

Getting to the root of the problem has never looked quite like this, medically speaking. Thanks to the latest innovation from the minds at MIT, there is now a tiny origami robot capable of performing ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

Once inside, a magnetic field guides and unfolds it at the target site, where it releases medicine in a controlled and steady ...

Imagine swallowing a tablet knowing it contains a robot that, when it enters your stomach, unfolds like origami and crawls its way around to heal where the ailment is. This could be the future of ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...