Researchers have merged the ancient art of origami with 21st century technology to create a one-step approach to fabricating complex structures whose light weight, expandability, and strength could ...

Origami structures offer a number of benefits that could be useful to a range of applications from biomedical devices to equipment used in space exploration. Some of these benefits are low weight, ...

Origami, the Japanese art of folding flat sheets of paper into three-dimensional figures, is the creative spark behind a new hybrid 3D printing technique. It allows structures to be created without ...

Closeup of an origami structure created through Digital Light Processing 3D printing. Engineers at The Georgia Institute of Technology have merged the ancient art of folding paper, origami, with 3D ...

Newswise — By merging the ancient art of origami with 21 st century technology, researchers have created a one-step approach to fabricating complex origami structures whose light weight, expandability ...

Whether you’re a fan of folding paper or life-saving medical procedures, you’re going to love the work that Brigham Young University is doing with small-scale surgical devices. BYU mechanical ...

There are only a few truly ancient engineered materials, and among the oldest is paper. Traditionally, paper is flat and can be bent into shapes. However, paper can be molded into for example packing ...

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have made flat surfaces that are 3D printed and then ‘taught’ how to self- fold later. The materials are potentially very well suited for all ...

Engineers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have used 3D printing to build a robotic device capable of gripping a wide range of objects. The findings of the ...

"What we have here is the proof of concept of an integrated system for manufacturing complex origami. It has tremendous potential applications," said Glaucio H. Paulino, a professor at the School of ...