Designing robots that can change shape can enable a range of applications, such as exploring environments or manipulating objects. Folding for shape transformation, akin to origami, is an established ...

Professor Yongrok Jung from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Kyungpook National University, in collaboration with Professors Jung Kim and Inkyu Park from KAIST, has developed a ...

As if a brain-like processing chip weren’t bad enough news for us humans, this week’s edition of Science also describes a robot that, after being laid out as a flat sheet, can fold itself into the ...

When it is connected to a power source, this flat robot folds itself into a 3D shape and starts walking. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the ...

An intricately cut sheet lies flat and motionless on a table. Then Samuel Felton, a graduate student at Harvard University, connects the batteries, sending electricity coursing through, heating it.

“This is the year of the general purpose home robot!” “2016 is going to be for robots like 1976 was for the home computer!” The problem with statements like those is the fact that we’ve been hearing ...

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