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 ...

It’s not quite a robot changing into a truck or a human shrinking to a minuscule size but we could be getting there. This tiny origami robot should be of great interest to fans of Transformers and Ant ...

Researchers have discovered how to use a well-known origami folding pattern called the Miura-ori to control fundamental physical properties of any thin sheet of material. The Miura-ori, which consists ...

(Nanowerk News) If the new nano-machines built at The Ohio State University look familiar, it's because they were designed with full-size mechanical parts such as hinges and pistons in mind. The ...