EPFL roboticists have shown that when a modular robot shares power, sensing, and communication resources among its individual ...

New modular robot design leverages shared electronics and power to maintain function even when modules fail.

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

Origami has plenty to offer the world of robotics, inspiring clever folding machines that could find their way into our stomaches and out to Mars. Scientists have again borrowed from this ancient ...

The ancient Japanese paper-folding art of origami (“ori” meaning “folding,” and “kami” meaning “paper”) probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about groundbreaking robot ...

KENNEBUNK - Geometry and crafts unite at Kennebunk Free Library at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. Eva Szillery of Maine Mathematics Science and Engineering Talent Search will present modular origami to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: This artist creates intricate origami designs that change shapes. Jasen Zhang uses modular-origami techniques to make ...

A groundbreaking exhibition that reveals the extraordinary power and potential of contemporary origami, “Above the Fold: New Expressions in Origami,” opens Sept. 2 at the Schaefer International ...