Scientists muse over origami. The ancient practice of folding ... Others are much larger, like human-sized arches. One stands out: an 8-foot-tall shelter with an 8-foot-wide octagonal floor ...

It's a painstaking process of making the photo, cutting out the face, folding it like origami, and then making a photo of the finished image. Haser was born in Germany, but spent most of her life ...

The machine, which begins as a flat sheet of material, exploits principles of origami to fold itself into a 3-D robot capable of walking without any human assistance. "We have achieved a long ...

Extremely complex shapes can be created using one piece of paper. Origami is scalable. You can make something that's squishy and malleable in almost the same way as a sponge but with little ...

Folding robots are nothing new, but scientists from Harvard and MIT have taken it to the next level, by designing one that assembles itself and walks away to do its job with zero human input.