A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has created a new 3D-printing method that builds paper-thin ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

Insects that tuck away their wings using origami creases have inspired foldable structures for drones and solar panels that ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. By ...

Origami isn’t just art anymore. A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has developed a new 3D printing technique that gives origami robots a life of their own, thanks to paper-thin ...

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The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move ...

Just in time for Halloween, one AI and robotics enthusiast has found a way to turn a humanoid robot into nightmare fuel in ...

Instead of building seawalls or dikes, Terranova has developed a new way to raise cities to protect them from sea-level rise.

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