Abstract: This paper proposes a new robotic platform based on origami robots and reconfigurable modular robots. The concept combines the advantages of both robot types into a mobile, ...

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Over the past decades, a growing number of robotics teams have started developing modular robots inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami. More recently, some of these teams started ...

Last week the Department of Mathematics hosted its semester kick-off Fletcher Jones Lecture Series, featuring Robert J. Lang– a former NASA physicist turned origami master and consultant. Lang spoke ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Protein cages and custom DNA structures have emerged as self-assembling ...

Solar technology major Nextracker announced the company would expand into the solar power frame market with the acquisition of Origami Solar. Origami is a pioneer in roll-formed steel frame technology ...

Larissa Novelino holds a paper model of a structure made from origami engineering. Credit: Alex Becker/Rice University. When Larissa Novelino started her career as an engineer, she never expected that ...

BYU student discovers previously unknown "blooming flower" origami folding pattern. The new technique has an infinite number of variations that can expand into 3-D forms. The designs have potential ...

A new family of origami shapes that unfold like flower petals could be used to design more effective structures in space, like telescopes or solar panels. Origami structures, based on the Japanese ...

BYU Engineering is well known for origami-inspired research and innovations, including foldable antenna systems used in space. Recently, an undergraduate student made a significant discovery—a new ...

Ever since the Industrial Revolution and the introduction of mass production, the ownership and use of simple products and services like flush toilets with running water, electricity, heating, and ...