But one of the key hurdles when bringing origami or kirigami to engineering is that these techniques often make things rather ...

Novel insight into the “Sareh twist” suggests that this mechanism underlying origami tessellations could become a key element in the design of origami-inspired structures for science and engineering ...

The EDSS FIRST Robotics 4917 team is busy with wires and metal as they prepare for their open house on March 7. The 46 students are all focused on getting their creation, a 50-pound robot dubbed Sir ...

Engineers at EPFL have demonstrated a modular robot that becomes more resilient as it gains more modules by sharing critical resources across its body. Led by the Reconfigurable Robotics Laboratory, ...

Reconfigurable structures that can repeatedly change their ...

Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, has received considerable attention in engineering. By applying paper-folding principles, researchers have created compact structures that are ...

Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, has received considerable attention in engineering. By applying paper-folding principles ...

Weave’s Isaac 0 can’t fold large blankets, sheets, or inside-out clothes, and still needs help from human teleoperators. Weave’s Isaac 0 can’t fold large blankets, sheets, or inside-out clothes, and ...

If the goal of a robot is to perform a function, then minimizing the possibility of failure is a top priority when it comes to robotic design. But this minimization is at odds with the robotic raison ...

EPFL roboticists have shown that when a modular robot shares power, sensing, and communication resources among its individual units, it is significantly more resistant to failure than traditional ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...