In theory, their design — which was largely inspired by the paper-folding art of origami — offers a more efficient way to send assembly structures into space, where the robot could then ...

In a new paper published Thursday in Science, Sam Felton and his colleagues show how they created the world’s first self-assembling robot, which forms itself, Transformer-like, from a flat sheet ...

A real-life Transformer has been created by scientists inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. In tests, the small shape-changing robot folded itself into a functional machine that ...

Researchers have created an origami robot that folds itself into shape from a flat sheet, potentially opening the way for a robot-building revolution.

Borrowing from the ancient Japanese art of origami, children's toys and even a touch of the "Transformers" movies, scientists and engineers at Harvard and MIT created self-assembling, paper robots.

Researchers have created a robot that can change its shape by folding itself up like a piece of origami and crawl away.Built by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, it ...

Scientists have created a Transformer-style robot inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami to cure diseases.

Watch these ‘transformer’ robots fold themselves into boats, wheels and other useful shapes A magnetic cube moves to a sheet of origami that folds around it and transforms into a walking bot.

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Washington have developed flying robots that change shape in mid-air. The solar-powered bots have a distinctive look that resembles origami.

The new technique represents a low-cost way to make small stereo speakers, miniature robots or motors for a variety of potential applications, including tweezers to manipulate cells and flexible ...