Origami has become known as a miracle technique for designers. Elegant compliant mechanisms can leverage the material ...

Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new ...

The first version of ORIPA was released in 2005. ORIPA was made open source in 2012, and was pushed to Github in 2013. To find out more about using the software ...

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is a wonderful way to create beautiful and intricate designs. While traditional origami mainly features two-dimensional shapes, 3D origami takes ...

Could a flat piece of fabric hold a 3D shape, the way paper does in origami? Aiming to find out, researchers from the Cornell ...

Abstract: Origami is known as a traditional art of paper folding. It has attracted extensive attention due to its self-folding mechanism, shape-morphing capability, and deployable structures. This ...

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief. The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research ...

Abstract: While vacuum-based bending actuation offers benefits such as safety and compactness in soft robotics, it is often overlooked due to its limited actuation pressure, which restricts both ...