After a major natural disaster, one of the biggest challenges is how to quickly rebuild basic infrastructure. A lot of logistics are required to ship everything needed to build a bridge or house–and, ...

While the exact origin of origami — the art of paper folding — is unclear, in all its forms, origami takes a plain piece of paper and transforms it into something more. For many years, through writing ...

Building robotic grippers that can firmly grasp heavy objects and also gently grasp delicate ones usually requires complicated sets of gears, hinges and motors. But it turns out that it’s also ...

Scientists out of Cornell University have created the world’s smallest origami bird. The creators hope microscopic robots like the origami bird will eventually become as advanced as the macro robotics ...

"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 ...

Origami is an ancient art form. In Japanese, it literally means 'folding paper,' and there are endless origami crafts. In this craft, adapted from the blog Molliepop, we'll turn a crisp dollar bill ...