They believe this origami-inspired paper, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, could be used to make miniature robots, artificial muscles and or devices for tissue engineering.

Scientists have discovered how to build robots out of rice paper, opening up brand new possibilities for robotic applications. A team from the University of Bristol discovered that the same ...

Scientists have discovered how to build robots out of rice paper, opening up brand new possibilities for robotic applications. A team from the University of Bristol discovered that the same ...

PAPER structures created using the principles of origami could lead to cheap, easy-to-make robots that are very different from their traditional metal brethren. George Whitesides and colleagues at ...

We’ve seen several types of specialized art robots before, capable of drawing portraits with a pen, painting them, or even using an Etch-a-Sketch, but [Joris] and [Felix]’s creation seems to ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

In the accompanying paper about the hand, Haptic Identification of Objects using a Modular Soft Robotic Gripper, the authors explain how they did it.